What Susanna spoke about.

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Apr

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 muc…

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Mar

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 Thailan…

12

Mar

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, rearmamen…

12

Feb

2025

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Continuing detention and risk of the death penalty for individuals in Nigeria charged with blasphemy, notably the case of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Europe there are trappers of African origin, first or second generation immigrants, who freely incite hatred against the symbols of the Christian faith. We saw it recently in Italy, where a young Italian-Moroccan singer made a video where the cathedral of Milan is shrouded in flames. In Nigeria, however, a young singer has been in prison for four years on cha…

22

Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for how many years has the Left been telling us that security and immigration are not related phenomena? You are finally realizing that this is not the case: Organised crime draws heavily from illegal immigration: They are perfect arms to serve the interests of organised crime across Europe. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2023 report, migrant…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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 create…

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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, s…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

(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 expr…

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Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

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 idea…

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Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

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 commo…

23

Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

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 Ita…

9

Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

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 …

9

Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

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…

18

Sep

2024

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The case of José Daniel Ferrer García in Cuba

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 h…

17

Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (debate)

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 communis…

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Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

(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 disemba…

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Apr

2024

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International Roma Day - Statement by the President

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 subse…

13

Mar

2024

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The repressive environment in Afghanistan, including public executions and violence against women

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, insult…

28

Feb

2024

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Preventing work-related deaths following the Florence tragedy (debate)

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 t…

27

Feb

2024

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Composition of committees and delegations

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 …

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Feb

2024

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European Central Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

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 …

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Feb

2024

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Increased number of executions in Iran, in particular the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou

(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…

7

Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

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-Semit…

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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

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 …

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Jan

2024

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Geothermal energy (debate)

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 commi…