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Feb

2023

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One year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a year ago the red flags of the former Soviet Union were flying over Russian tanks invading Ukraine. An unequivocal message to the whole West, an attack on freedom, on the territorial integrity of a sovereign state. Europe had to stand up, and we stood up for the freedom, sovereignty and dignity of the Ukrainian people. Twelve months later, however, the risk of …

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Jan

2023

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Criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, including search and rescue (debate)

Mr Bartolo, however, your words are certainly ideologised, because you know very well that putting rules on NGOs means putting rules also on the protection of migrants. Who, in your opinion, should take care of the reception, of private NGOs, which in many cases have also been investigated for having then taken undue money to collect as many migrants as possible? These are sea smugglers, they are …

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Jan

2023

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Criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, including search and rescue (debate)

Thank you Silvia Sardone for allowing me to respond to some of the speeches that have been made in this House. Perhaps Mrs Strik and other colleagues are not informed about what happened in Italy. Mimmo Lucano was not condemned because he is on the left and therefore he was a champion of justice. He was condemned because with the money destined to the reception we made the villa, because he distra…

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Jan

2023

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Criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let us start with the title of this debate on the criminalisation of rescue at sea. Do you think that laying down rules means criminalizing? Let me give you an example: On board ambulances there are doctors and volunteers who save millions of lives every day, yet, rightly, they are subjected to rules, protocols, procedures. No one would ever dream of saying that…

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Jan

2023

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The EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro : strengthening sanctions against the Putin regime and military support to Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today in the Italian press finally comes the news of the closure requested by the judges of Milan with regard to the investigation into Russian funds to the League. We have always supported it: The League, Matteo Salvini have never seen a ruble, but here in Europe there was someone on the left who wanted to find the friends of the Russians, he wanted to accus…

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Jan

2023

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report 2022 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, the challenge of dictatorships to democracies has begun again. We need unity of purpose in all democracies, even outside the borders of the European Union. That is why it is really important to forge stronger cooperative ties with the US, with Israel and with Asian democracies that share our values. But is this unity of purpose really achiev…

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Nov

2022

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Situation in Libya (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are talking about a very important report, because the Libyan issue is a geopolitical, energy and migration time bomb. Unfortunately, the same European powers that brought down and toppled Gaddafi's dictatorship set off that bomb that explodes now in our hands, without having a plan on how to rebuild Libya afterwards. After many years, no internation…

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Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is true that racism exists in Europe. It exists in the abandoned suburbs, where the poor go to war for a subsidy or a people's home. A battle between the last, where those who participate do not play to win but fight to survive. It is the racism of the world of the vanquished. But there is also another, more subtle racism. It is the racism of restricted traff…

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Oct

2022

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Continued internal border controls in the Schengen area in light of the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (C-368/20) (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, many years ago now, Europe decided to remove the internal borders that separated the Member States, in order to develop the exchange of goods and people on a continental level. A choice that has favored the development of networks, infrastructure and trade within the different European areas. Well-being and economic development, however, are not achieved unless …

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Oct

2022

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Situation of Roma people living in settlements in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have heard many fine words, but I would like to tell you a story. In Pisa, in the 2000s - in Pisa and Tuscany the left ruled for many years - with the funds of the European Community for about one billion of the old liras, 500 000 euros, villas were built to overcome a Roma camp that had hundreds and hundreds of inhabitants. Well, what happened? That these …

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Oct

2022

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AccessibleEU Centre in support of accessibility policies in the EU internal market (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there are many beautiful words in this accessibility report: rights, respect, sensitivity, civilization. Unfortunately, good words are not always followed by deeds, not even in the European Parliament, not even in the building that should be accessible to everyone more than any other. I want to tell you about a direct experience. I've been wanting to hire Mic…

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Sep

2022

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State of the SME Union (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, small and medium-sized enterprises are the fundamental artery of Europe and also of Italy: think that in Italy they are 92 % of the total number of companies operating and employ 82 % of Italian workers. I visited some small and medium-sized enterprises last week, in Tuscany, in the footwear sector, in Santa Maria a Monte: 70% goes to exports. A…

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Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the arrest of Monsignor Álvarez and some seminarians is only the latest of the persecutions carried out by the Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega. Just as in Cuba, Latin America is dominated by a self-styled left-wing democracy that over time has become a ruthless dictatorship. Unfortunately, in the world we are still forced to witness situations with countri…

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Jul

2022

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2021 Report on Serbia (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if we take a map in our hands, we see that enlargement to the Balkans appears to be an unavoidable issue from a geopolitical point of view, yet the summit on the Balkans on 23 June last was a failure. None of the countries waiting today have seen substantial progress, to the great disappointment of all leaders the European Union has failed to deliver on its…

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May

2022

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State of play of the EU-Moldova cooperation (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the concern of Moldovan citizens since the conflict broke out in Ukraine is very high. Moldova is on the border with Ukraine and has been facing a very complicated situation for years with Transnistria, a piece of territory that has declared itself independent, but in fact under Russian influence. In Transnistria there are not only weapons depots, but also power…

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May

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 'God bless you, bless your family and Hungary'. This was said by Pope Francis to Viktor Orbán at the end of their conversation, after giving him a bronze medallion depicting St. Martin, protector of the poor. This beautiful meeting, full of meaning, was a real blow to the European left that for years has been trying to attack Hungary and Poland through the mo…

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Apr

2022

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The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU (debate)

Thanks to the colleague, who will surely get a good complaint and with this money we will pay maybe some Italian who, unfortunately, cannot access social housing because in Italy, unfortunately, social housing is given first to the Roma, in many cases, who skip the lists. Here, I'll tell you a story. Maybe there is no time and I hope to have another blue card, because at seven they took me to visi…

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Apr

2022

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The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there are many prejudices about the Roma people in Europe. The first and most discriminatory is that, according to the left, they cannot behave like other citizens who work, pay taxes, send their children to school and pay rent. I was the mayor and, for years, the leftist administrations that preceded me had kept a Roma camp in terrible hygienic conditions, betw…

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Apr

2022

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Human rights situation in North Korea, including the persecution of religious minorities

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, North Korea is the worst dictatorship in the world and it is no coincidence that it is a communist dictatorship. In December, for the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-Un's father, it was forbidden even to laugh, celebrate one's birthday, speak aloud in public, under penalty of arrest as enemies of the people. In North Korea, the kwa…

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Mar

2022

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Destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, those who, like us, are lucky enough to have been born in the third millennium have long believed that they live in peace and prosperity. Today the tragedy is in Ukraine, but only two years ago the drama knocked just a few hundred kilometers further south, in a handkerchief of land between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in a region, Artsakh, where in a few weeks tho…

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2022

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The situation of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Thomas Jefferson said that 'where the press is free and everyone knows how to read, there are no dangers'. The litmus test of our democracies is freedom of the press. Because the free press can be good or bad, but without freedom the press can be nothing but bad. Precisely for this reason what has been happening for years in Mexico is very worrying. Official …

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Feb

2022

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The death penalty in Iran

In this book there are the faces of young people and they are just some of the 120 000 political opponents killed by the regime. 30 000 of them were executed in the summer of 1988, following one by Khomeini. Boys and girls, mostly students, killed in their prime by an unscrupulous regime. These women who fight for the freedom of their people are very brave, because they cannot even call their fami…

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Feb

2022

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The death penalty in Iran

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, women in Islamic fundamentalist regimes are the ones who pay the highest price. I have in my eyes images of a shocking video, where a husband beheading his 17-year-old wife, accused of adultery, walks the streets smiling, exposing his head like a trophy. In Iran, a man who kills his 14-year-old daughter faces eight years in prison. A woman who removes her veil r…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Cuba, namely the cases of José Daniel Ferrer, Lady in White Aymara Nieto, Maykel Castillo, Luis Robles, Félix Navarro, Luis Manuel Otero, Reverend Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, Andy Dunier García and Yunior García Aguilera

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 'they called me from Cuba at three in the morning, they are repressing my family. I have a cousin who is like a sister to me. In August they took her off work, she's a radiologist. The gang of Revolutionary Defense Committees of the Federation of Cuban Women carried out acts of violence, threw a stone at her home, persecuted and threatened her. They had to go…

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Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, probably Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, the greats of Italian literature would laugh at the guidelines on inclusive language that were then rightly withdrawn. In Italian there are many words of female gender that indicate universal concepts: freedom, reason, faith, humanity. Even as a form of respect you give yourself. Only fascism tried to change her w…