Speeches

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the right to express one's thoughts without fear is one of the great gifts of democracy, as Roosevelt, a Democrat, said. Last term, the League and I voted against the Digital Services Act. More than protecting democracy: The Digital Services Act, as it was conceived, is a club in the hands of the oligarchs of the European Union. This regulation was not created to protect citizens, but to control and censor. It is yet another tool of those who, under the pretext of fighting fake news and foreign interference, muzzle dissent and strengthen unique thinking. This is a custom-built debate against Elon Musk, guilty of making X an open platform free of ideological censorship. And what do you say now about Zuckerberg, who aligns himself with these new pushes for freedom? It shows that the wind is changing. The dictatorship of political correctness is finally collapsing in the rest of the world, except in Europe. And Europe risks suffering an undemocratic and censorship drift thanks to the European Soviet Union.

I also answer you in my mother tongue, Italian, which perhaps you understand. Look, the responsibility is individual. In life, in society, in common life we are all responsible for our actions; if a person hides, cowardly, behind a false profile, a profile fake, he must pay and it is right that he should pay for his responsibilities if he wrongfully offends other people. I myself have denounced, some we have found and they have been condemned. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to find these people, but justice is justice. The law is the law for everyone, even on social media.

(start of speech off mic) ... represents a threat to European democracies? Is it the sovereign peoples who freely choose their representatives through the ballot box or those self-proclaimed enlightened elites who consider themselves the sole bearers of truth? From Brussels, regulations like the Digital Services Act are presented as tools to defend democracy, yet they risk stifling freedom of expression and silencing dissenting voices. The plurality of ideas – the cornerstone of any democracy – is being undermined in the name of a so-called greater good. Today, in the digital age, social networks are the new public squares where free citizens engage in debate. Yet these platforms are under attack by those who seek to control information and silence dissent. A clear example example is Elon Musk, who has become a target for defending free speech. And yet these platforms give a voice to millions, promoting the plurality of ideas, essential to a free society. Freedom of expression is non-negotiable. Limiting it means suppressing citizens' right to participate in public life. The peoples of Europe are not an ignorant mass. Tick tock, tick tock, the time for hypocrisy is running out. It's time to defend truth, pluralism and authentic democracy.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is transforming hate speech. online in a Trojan horse to stifle freedom of expression on the web. True, new technologies can be used to spread insults, threats and hatred. I know something about it: Every day I receive threats from Islamic fundamentalists or keyboard lions. But the solution is not to gag those who express uncomfortable ideas and stifle dissent. Commissioner Breton has attempted to obscure the debate between Elon Musk and Trump. Is this your democracy? Democracy is based on dialectics. Western thought lives on freedom, it is founded on freedom of thought. If we stifle freedom of thought, if we stifle the West, if we stifle what we are, if we stifle Europe, then the European Union is betraying itself, it is betraying the whole philosophy of Western thought. With this Digital Services Act we are gagging people, especially those uncomfortable ideas that the left does not like. woke, who do not like the respectable left, which makes so much theory in these classrooms, is good at teaching everyone but does not yet know well on which pillars Europe is based.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, every hour spent searching for documents, filling out forms, submitting certifications, queuing at the counter is an hour taken away from innovation, research and development. In Italy, bureaucracy steals 312 hours from every small and medium-sized enterprise. The problem, on a continent where small and medium-sized enterprises make up 99% of the total, is common and community-based. The most elephantine of bureaucracies that falls on entrepreneurs and citizens is right here, in Strasbourg and in Brussels. Let me give you just one example: It's not about businesses, it's about fragile people. In Tuscany, my region, the resources for the Independent Life project for people with disabilities have moved from a regional funding line to that of the European Social Fund. Due to this change, those who receive contributions will be obliged to participate in a new call, which involves the cancellation of existing rankings, the request for new evaluation documentation, the dismissal of employees hired, waiting for the new request to be accepted. What does the disabled person who doesn't have the money do? He can not redo all the drawing, the documentation, he loses the collaborator. So where does he go? Governor Giani's house? Or Ursula von der Leyen?

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, one million failed returns of irregular immigrants who deserved deportation: Let's talk about this. But what action has the European Union taken to prevent this huge flaw in our security system? Nothing, the European Union does nothing – on the contrary – it throws a wrench in the wheels of any initiative by Member States to stop irregular immigration. In Italy, we signed a pact with Albania to build repatriation centres there. But Italian judges are boycotting this choice, only out of political opposition. The judges also put Matteo Salvini on trial for stopping illegal immigration in 2019 and on trial - think about it - for kidnapping, as if he were a common criminal. It's unbelievable, but this is what they invented to block those who managed to give effective answers. What do you think we should do to those who are delinquent in our countries and do not want to integrate with European culture and do not respect the principles of equality between men and women? Should we keep them all? Let us stop the hypocrisy and respect the mandate of European citizens, who want security and less immigration.

Thank you, Mr Torselli. She's Tuscan like me. He has in mind the positions of our governor Giani, which have also changed over time. The Tuscan left, like the Italian and European left, wants more and more migrants, but does not want to expel those migrants who delinquent. They are very favorable in Tuscany to open new reception centers, increasingly large, the last for example in the province of Lucca, in Antraccoli, but when it comes to expelling them, expelling irregulars, expelling criminals I do not agree. Instead a CPR, a center for repatriation in Tuscany and other Italian regions serves because illegal immigration that persists in Europe must be expelled.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, defending borders is a duty, it is a duty towards the most fragile citizens. Bringing everyone in, as the Left has wanted in recent years, has meant filling our cities with criminals, drug dealers and terrorists. Our borders are a colabrodo. Do we need an agency like Frontex that should defend borders more than ever? But let's tell the citizens that in recent years the Left, the Greens, have repeatedly tried to take the funds from Frontex and turn this coast guard into an NGO handmaid. Let's be clear: defending human rights is right, but why does this have to come at the expense of the security of European citizens? The league and I have always put safety first. This is demonstrated by Matteo Salvini, a true patriot, who today risks six years in prison for having defended the Italian and European borders from the irregular flows of illegal immigrants. We are therefore very much in favour of giving more support to Frontex. Not only that, we expect a reform of the mandate of the Agency that reduces the role of human rights commissioners and increases operational capacities also in third countries. Finally, we hope that this debate will not prove to be yet another inconclusive theatre. Europe must defend its borders. This is the imperative mandate that the peoples have shouted at the ballot box of the European elections. Listen to them, listen to them, or the Europe we know will disappear in the deafening noise of your deaf hypocrisy.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there are over 1 000 political prisoners arbitrarily arrested and detained in Cuba, while a bloody authoritarian regime continues to brutally oppress anyone who dares to oppose it. José Daniel Ferrer García is not only an opponent of the communist regime, but an example of non-violent resistance and hope for a peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba. Today his situation is critical and the conditions in which he is forced are objectively inhumane. The European Union’s response to this crisis – as to many others – has so far been inadequate. A timid, ineffective reaction, devoid of any incisiveness. The European Union, on the other hand, has a moral and political duty to adopt a clear and strong position. We call for the immediate, unconditional release of José Daniel Ferrer García and all other political prisoners who are victims of communism and its atrocities. It is not only an act of justice, but a concrete demonstration of solidarity with all those Cubans who risk their lives every day to embrace the highest Western values: freedom and democracy. We strongly condemn the systematic violations of human rights perpetrated by the Cuban regime, torture, violence against demonstrators and repression of freedom of expression and worship. The passive behaviour of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Mr Borrell, is not only inappropriate, but scandalous. His indifference to the cries for help in Cuba, which are a huge stain on the reputation of the entire Union, is scandalous. We must immediately introduce targeted sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations, stop all financial support to an oppressive regime. It is our task, but above all the task of the majority, which unfortunately also includes those who have always looked with sympathy also to extreme leftist regimes, not recognizing the damage that communism has done in Europe in the last century and that it still perpetrates in the rest of the world. We must therefore condemn these injustices, but also act concretely to stop them.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this Parliament has a duty to raise its voice against an anarcho-communist government that has erased all traces of democracy, violated human rights and left an entire population to suffer hunger, misery and despair. Venezuela, once one of Latin America's most prosperous nations, has been ravaged by years of dictatorship and repression under Maduro's communist regime. The rigged elections that continue to occur are just another chapter in a long line of fraud. Thousands of political opponents have been persecuted, imprisoned or forced into exile. Freedom of the press has been silenced. Peaceful protesters were brutally repressed and the country plunged into unacceptable economic and social conditions. We cannot afford to remain indifferent to these injustices. We have a moral duty to the Venezuelan people, we must support them in their struggle for freedom. Europe must recognize Edmundo González as the legitimate elected president and demand that Maduro be held accountable for his crimes before international justice. More than 5 million Venezuelans have been forced to leave their homeland. Maduro has not only devastated the lives of his citizens: his regime poses a threat to the stability of the entire region. Its authoritarian control over institutions, the use of military force against its own people, and ties to criminal organizations and corrupt regimes cannot and should no longer be tolerated. Yet, in the West, the left is silent or downplaying what is happening in Venezuela. Europe must now act, issue targeted sanctions against the Maduro regime and offer concrete support to the democratic forces in Venezuela. We need to send a strong and clear message: Europe will not remain silent in the face of tyranny. Long live the Venezuelan people and a greeting to our Venezuelan friends who are here in the Chamber.

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, at the Open Arms trial in Palermo, the public prosecution requested six years in prison for Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Matteo Salvini, who in 2018‐2019 defended Italy’s borders and the safety of Italians by blocking the landings of illegal immigrants. In his indictment, the prosecutor said that terrorists and human traffickers should also be disembarked. A crazy opinion, which the European left, NGOs and immigration NGOs fully share. But let them go and tell it to the families of the victims of the Solingen attack, who saw their loved ones die, to whom I express my total closeness and solidarity and that of the entire group of Patriots for Europe. Let them tell the families of the victims of all the other Islamist attacks that have bloodied our European nations. Irregular immigrants, among whom terrorists and traffickers are hiding, must not be sent away and Europe must facilitate their repatriation, not complicate the lives of the States that want to do so. Leave the nations free to defend their borders. Let the peoples of Europe live in safety, preserve their identity and preserve their roots.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry to break the idyll of the other groups for International Roma Day, but it is necessary to say things as they are. Roma culture is a strongly patriarchal culture. In recent days in Italy a Roma girl at the eighth month of pregnancy was beaten by her bosses, Roma like her, because she stole too little in the subway. In Roma camps women are totally subservient to their fathers and husbands, but in this case women's rights do not interest you. It is common to find Roma women begging on the street trying to pity passersby, taking very young children with them. But here, too, you are not interested in the rights of the child. When I was mayor I evicted a Roma camp, among the insults of the left, where the sanitary conditions were fearful. I did it for those children and those women. Remember that hypocrisy is always the best ally of injustice and you are allies of these injustices.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it has just been 8 March for the Afghan women too, and yet no one, especially European feminists, can be remembered of them. You see, President, last week I promoted a campaign of very clear posters. It conveyed, through an inscription in Arabic and Italian, a very simple message: You have the same rights in Europe as your husband. Since that day insults, insults, threats have rained down on me and instead of solidarity I found the blame of the left and feminists, too perhaps committed to condemning the West to notice what is really happening in countries where women's rights are really violated. And so I quote the words of a great woman, a great writer, addressed to local feminists: "I have something to say to female cicadas, that is to say to feminists with a bad memory, Down the mask, fake Amazons. How is it that on the Afghan sisters, on the murdered creatures, tortured by the male chauvinists with the cloak and the turban, you imitate the silence of your little ones? How is it that you never organize a bark in front of the embassy of Afghanistan, [...] or some other [...] Islamic country that violates women's rights? Or do you not care about the Muslim sisters because you consider them inferior? In that case, who is racist here: Me or you? The truth is, you're not even cicadas. You are and always have been hens who can only sneeze in the chicken coop [...]. Or parasite. That in order to try to emerge, you needed a man to hold your hand. This was the great Oriana Fallaci, and today not much has changed.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 16 March in Florence, five workers died as a result of the collapse of a beam on the construction site of a supermarket: A terrible massacre. There were several companies working on that site with cascading subcontracts. Until a year ago, subcontracting in Italy was prohibited. But then the European Union forced us to apply Directive 24 of 2014 which allows them, in the name of the free market. Four out of five victims were immigrants and half of them were not in good standing with a residence permit. We all cried for them, but few recognized that many irregular migrants, willing to do anything to survive, are easy prey to organized crime or infamous and unscrupulous corporals, who mercilessly exploit them in dangerous tasks for hunger pay. The irregular immigration that the European left continues to foment does not save migrants: Sometimes it kills them. This inclusive and humanitarian Europe must be less hypocritical!

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, these days in Italy the debate is monopolised by the clashes that took place in Pisa and Florence between students and police forces during pro-Hamas demonstrations that were not authorised by the authorities. Among the protesters were high school students but also infiltrators of violent social centers. In the clashes, three officers and eleven protesters were injured: I wish everyone a speedy recovery, without distinction. The policemen, who are injured workers at work, did not choose to be there that morning and certainly would have preferred to stand elsewhere to defend us from crime, as they would certainly have preferred to be elsewhere the years gone by during the COVID, rather than to stand down demonstrations against the Green Pass and the directives of democratic and pro-European governments. But in that case the batons were democratic. I ask the President and this House "..." (The President took the floor from the speaker)

Mr President, Mr Lagarde, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking on behalf of millions of Italian families who are no longer able to pay their home loans. You asked us to sacrifice our economic sovereignty because this - we were told - would shield us from inflation and wars. Today we have inflation, we have war, but we no longer have sovereignty. You have unleashed social butchery, inflicting heavy losses on savers and low-income families. Madam President, regardless of the economic difficulties of families and businesses, you have closed yourself in your ivory tower, where, moreover, you have been considered inadequate in your role even by the employees of the European Central Bank itself. A single interest rate for different economies is a big problem: the inflation rate in Italy is 0,6 %, in Germany 3,5 %. Who do you work for, Mr. President? Who did you work for? For the European peoples or for the global elites? Germany has an inflation problem: Italy has a growth problem! That is why your decisions, Mr Lagarde, cannot be good for both of us. Just get the rules dictated by Berlin. Italian families want answers.

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the hanging of Mohammad, an opponent of the regime with mental disabilities, is another step in the infamy of the Ayatollahs. But, with great honesty and great sorrow, we must note that the Iranian regime's continued death sentences against young women and men, guilty only of demanding democracy, are no longer newsworthy in Europe. Just as the extermination of minorities, such as Baluchis and Kurds, which is taking place these days, is no longer news. The European media systematically cover up this news, covering it up with pages and pages of alleged rights violations in Hungary, Slovakia and so on, because they are uncomfortable for the media. deep state of the global dem. On the other hand, despite our constant calls for serious measures, the European Union has decided to pretend to sanction Iran, but it has not. We know that the Revolutionary Guard Corps, around which all the regime's illegal businesses revolve, which is very active in Europe, has almost 200 000 active members, but the European Union has only sanctioned 216 of them. Isn't it outrageous for the victims of those murderers and also for our intelligence? The only positive side of this sad situation is that we have to praise all those brave men like Mohammad, who are protesting for women's rights: They are at the forefront of our values and are still risking their lives.

Madam President, we need to fight any form of hate and any act of violence motivated by racism and religious intolerance. This is our duty – the defence of our main European values. However, we can’t put anti-Semitism, which is a dramatic reality, and anti-Muslim hatred on the same level. The hard truth is that after the 7 October, after the first pogrom of Israeli people inside Israel, anti-Semitism came back as a flame all over Europe. The horror of those scenes of slaughter of innocent Jewish people inflamed not just the moral condemnation of the aggressors, but also the irrational and motivated hate against Jews. We have to say that Jews are hated mostly by Muslim immigrants nowadays in Europe. They are not the only ones, but they are the main promoters of the new anti—Semitism, together with the far left. We don’t want to cancel the truth, we don’t accept this equalisation and therefore we are not equidistant. We don’t forget that the aggressor is Hamas and that Israel is the victim, that Islamic terrorists want to wipe a people of the face of the earth, while Israelis are forced to defend themselves in order to assert their right to exist and live in safety.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the green revolution wants to turn agricultural fields into photovoltaic fields to provide energy for the industry that will produce synthetic food. It's not a science fiction novel, it's not Asimov, unfortunately it's the crazy reality. Tractors have besieged the European Parliament for a few days, you have besieged them for five years. You have signed free trade agreements that have opened the doors of the single market to agricultural sectors in third countries without standards similar to ours. Some of you accuse us of voting for the CAP. The CAP is the only concrete instrument to support farmers. Not voting for it would have put them in trouble. The members of the extreme left and the Greens who did not vote for it - mind you - did not vote for it not to support the right protests of the farmers, but because in their opinion the CAP was not enough. greenHe didn't slaughter the farmers enough. Proudly, however, I voted against the crazy measures related to the Green DealThey really bring European production to its knees, not just agricultural production. You have forgotten the European workers, but the European workers will not forget you, rest assured.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I come from the geothermal region par excellence, Tuscany, where even the first geothermal power plant was born in Larderello, Larderello 1, where energy has been produced for more than 100 years. I have heard the Green and Left groups speak in favour of geothermal energy, but I would like to point out that the local representatives of the NO Geothermal committees refer precisely to the Greens and the 5 Stars; They say that geothermal energy is not actually renewable, so maybe a phone call to the NO committees on the territory, say how you think. It is good that Europe, too, is now dealing with and starting to move on geothermal activity and that it is expected to become more widespread in Europe. A diffusion, however, that, it is good to underline, will be able to affirm itself only if we manage to temper the initial investment risk that operators must assume, promoting support funds of the high initial fixed costs of mapping and exploration to be incurred.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we bring hundreds of thousands of migrants into Europe, abandoning them to organised crime that exploits them for undeclared work and then we complain that human rights are often not respected at work. You say that sometimes the police intervened too harshly against the demonstrators, but perhaps you forget how the demonstrators were also treated against the draconian laws on the green pass and vaccines. You speak of fundamental rights, in which political rights are clearly understood, and you do not scruple about wanting to ban some political parties that do not think like the left majority. Talk about women's rights in Europe, but turn a blind eye to the many Islamic women who are treated like animals by their husbands in Europe. You speak of equal rights for all, but you are always ready to give cultural attenuations to those who are foreigners. I agree: There is still much to be done in Europe in terms of rights and also in terms of hypocrisy.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, freedom of thought is the foundation of the West. Free thinkers, philosophers, scientists have built the pillars of European freedom and our well-being and a handful of left-wing bureaucrats, on the other hand, want to plunge us back into the darkest obscurantism. I agree that freedom of thought should be limited, that's fine. But do you know who in Italy has decriminalized the crime of insult? Just the left a few years ago! In Italy we are free to offend anyone. So the left makes us moral, from what pulpit! I agree that hatred, social envy, political resentment are absolutely negative feelings; Last week, a woman committed suicide following a hate campaign sparked by left-wing influencers. So, be careful: To the left, first make laws to harm your political opponents, and then these usual laws backfire on you.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Sánchez, I find your attacks on the Italian Government and on Geert Wilders disgusting, because I remind you that they have been democratically elected. I believe that no one should be persecuted for their ideas. Fighting for your own people, for the identity of a people, should not be a crime and I think it applies also to Catalan independence activists, but I find it disgusting that you made an agreement with the independence activists only to go to government. This is hypocrisy and political opportunism! Today in this House you are saying that migration must be controlled and that migration policy must be ordered and regulated: We agree with you, but I wonder if it is Pedro Sánchez himself who attacked Minister Matteo Salvini in March 2022 for doing the same things that you are saying today. No more hypocrisy "comrade" Sánchez, no more free attacks and be consistent, no more attacks on the Italian government!

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 2024 will be a crucial year for democracy in the world: There will be the European elections, the elections in Taiwan and the American presidential elections. We focus so much here in the European Union on electoral law, but the failure of the European Union's policy over the last twenty years is a given: Until 2008, the European economy was larger than the American one, from 2008 onwards the American economy overtook the European one. Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the European one. This is the failure of the socialists' policy in the European Union in recent years; Socialists who wanted to impose migration policy on the Member States, who wanted to impose competition laws and who wanted to impose on the Member States how to do business. And the European Union is lagging behind, our old continent is getting more and more tired and weary. Then what to do? We need to understand that in order to have a strong European Union we need strong nations. In Florence, two weeks ago, the League brought together our European allies of Identity and Democracy for a true European renaissance.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, my daughter, you were born a girl. I have always wanted a daughter to share games with dolls together, to take you to dance and piano lessons, if you want, to better advise you when, as a teenager, you will have the first crushes and when, when you grow up, you will really fall in love. You'll be disappointed, but you'll be able to get up if I've been a good mother. I will teach you to believe in yourself, to be independent psychologically and economically, to love someone intensely but never to annihilate yourself. I will tell you, when you have the age to understand, that you will never have to accept any abuse, no violence, even if small or seemingly harmless, and not even as a joke. I'll teach you how to report, how to defend yourself, how to turn away people who want to hurt you. I will teach you to hate violence, not to suffer it and not to inflict it on others. Grow up and never regret being a woman. He's proud and with his head held high. Remember to love with all your heart and without fear. When she was born, four years ago, my daughter, I wrote her this message and I think that the first anti-violence campaign we do at home every day. In history, the most important results for women's emancipation have been achieved thanks to the self-awareness that women have achieved. This is still the way to go to continue defending women: Freedom and awareness. Unfortunately, there are few men in this House today, we are all women. Of this we must ask ourselves: Is this a debate exclusively for women or is it also about men? It's also about fathers, it's also about children, it's also about mothers. Fathers, but also mothers, have the task of educating their children.