What Susanna spoke about.

7 Feb

2024

EN Speech

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

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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…

7 Feb

2024

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

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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 …

17 Jan

2024

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Geothermal energy (debate)

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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…

17 Jan

2024

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2022 and 2023 (debate)

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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 …

17 Jan

2024

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Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime (debate)

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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…

13 Dec

2023

IT Speech

Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

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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, …

11 Dec

2023

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The European Elections 2024 (debate)

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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 A…

23 Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

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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 mot…

21 Nov

2023

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Packaging and packaging waste (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when I hear that the European Commission has ambitious programmes, I am afraid because I would prefer the projects to be a little less ambitious and a little more realistic, a little more balanced. I was the mayor before I was a Member of the European Parliament and, together with my colleagues, I spent years explaining to citizens how to do separate waste colle…

8 Nov

2023

IT Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, my region of Tuscany, where I come from, has been plagued by bad weather in recent weeks. There were eight deaths! Tuscany, which many of you know, with its artistic beauties, with its great people, is now on its knees; families have flooded houses, many companies have lost everything, the damage amounts to more than 300 million euros. That is why I call on t…

18 Oct

2023

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Islamist terrorist attack on French schools and the need to protect people and promote social cohesion (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, people are afraid. Several people have written to me to know if they can safely take the plane, if they can go to the supermarket, if they can take their children to school. Europe, with its weakness, allowed war to enter our cities. The left said that the terrorists would never arrive on boats and instead here they are. You have continued to support, in the nam…

4 Oct

2023

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Human rights situation in Afghanistan, in particular the persecution of former government officials

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Afghanistan an entire generation has grown up for twenty years believing in change, trusting us as loyal allies and hoping for a modern, secular country, governed by law and not by brute force, and having gained confidence in the future, a future of freedom, albeit in the midst of so many difficulties and so many problems. We betrayed that trust. In the …

4 Oct

2023

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The spread of ‘anti-LGBTIQ’ propaganda bills by populist parties and governments in Europe (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in my own country, Italy, - I am responding to the various accusations that have been made in this House - the rights of homosexuals are respected, as in other European countries, no less. Someone, right here in this House, has made instrumental politics, comparing Italy, a member and founder country, to Uganda, and only for your political instrumentalizati…

4 Oct

2023

IT Speech

Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago an Italian judge released three Tunisian irregulars from a repatriation centre, arguing that those treatments are contrary to European standards. This judge shared on social media the signature collections to distrust Matteo Salvini and signature collections so that Europe had to open the doors to migrants by paying them directly the plane ti…

3 Oct

2023

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Question Time with Commissioners – EU-China trade relations

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Commissioner, the European Union is a major trading partner of China: the third for exports and the first for imports. So we understand, it is obvious, that China intends to sell, but less to buy, asks for open borders but keeps its borders closed. It is a one-way globalization and this must change. For example, Italy, with the government of the Five Star Movement, signed the memorandum of Belt an…

3 Oct

2023

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Medicine shortages and strategic healthcare autonomy in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we often talk about energy sovereignty and food sovereignty, but we should talk more about pharmaceutical sovereignty, a driving force for national and European economies. Most of the active ingredients, as has been said, are produced in China and India. This is alarming for our pharmaceutical safety. If we had a global crisis, for example, many of the life-savi…

2 Oct

2023

IT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Italy is under unprecedented migratory pressure and is at risk of exploding illegal immigrants, while Europe continues to do well with the borders of others, namely our own. Commissioner Johansson probably didn't even notice, so busy doing the stocking as she is. Germany, probably in the company of other European countries, has funded NGOs to bring immig…

12 Sep

2023

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2022 Report on Türkiye (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in twenty years Europe has released tens of billions of euros to Turkey for pre-accession funds to the European Union. Sultan Erdoğan used this river of money for his own propaganda, to threaten Europe with migrants, to Islamize the country more and more and to repress human rights. I do not read in the report an acknowledgment of the total failure of the Europe…

12 Jul

2023

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Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Timmermans, I wonder why we are pursuing such masochistic policies in Europe that penalise the jobs of European citizens? I come from Tuscany, I live near Pontedera. In Pontedera there is the Piaggio factory, where the legendary Vespa is produced. Here, they started to produce the electric Vespa. Visitors went to visit the plant and in the produc…

11 Jul

2023

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Relations with the Palestinian Authority (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the solution based on peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians is the only possible solution to the conflict. Certainly, however, we do not get there by accusing Israel and putting it once again in the dock, because to talk about peace it is first of all necessary to re-establish the truth. The failure of the European Union is to have given hundred…

31 May

2023

IT Speech

Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 79)

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Madam President, I would like to appeal to Rule 10 of our Rules of Procedure because an unfortunate event happened in the LIBE Committee on 23 May. We were talking about the events in Cutro, the shipwreck of a migrant boat and 94 deaths; During this session, and therefore an important debate, while the parliamentarians of the centre-right groups were speaking, the German MEP Birgit Sippel showed t…

10 May

2023

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Update of the anti-corruption legislative framework (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, trust is fundamental in politics because, if the citizen does not trust the institutions and their representatives, the institutions are less representative and therefore weaker. Corruption has existed since the existence of public power and is one of the most detestable human vices. The Qatargate affair was probably the biggest scandal to hit this Parliament…

20 Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

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That's exactly what I told you. In the Middle Ages there were no industries, there was no industrial revolution, but it is precisely thanks to the industrial revolution and, let's say it, also thanks to emissions, that progress makes us live up to ninety years and we do not die at twenty. Unfortunately it has contraindications, of course, the industrial revolution has pollution, but without that i…

20 Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

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Mr President, climate change also divides the scientific community: According to some scholars, the transformations of the climate are part of the natural alternation of the phases that make up the history of the world, according to others, they jeopardize the future of the planet. However you see it, it is certain that our society, since the industrial revolution, pollutes more. There are those w…

18 Apr

2023

IT Speech

The need for European solidarity in saving lives in the Mediterranean, in particular in Italy (debate)

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Look in Italy we have seen the captain, your captain Carola Rackete, ram the Italian Coast Guard and thus perform an act never seen before. We have seen in Italy in recent months – because you may not know why we are here discussing the emergency in Italy – we have seen 31,000 migrants arrive in Italy precisely because your reception policy would like more and more of them. He attacked the governm…