What Anna spoke about.

14 Mar

2023

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Question Time (VPC/HR) - Strengthening the Trans-Atlantic ties in an ever challenging multilateral world

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Mr President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, in this century we know that there is little that a single national security strategy can do, that a European security strategy is not enough: We need an increasingly strong transatlantic security strategy. And in the context of the transatlantic dialogue, we know that for our greatest and most important ally, the United States, the concept …

14 Feb

2023

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Tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Commissioner, talking about Congo and the border with Rwanda opens up a particularly painful wound for us Italians: the tragic death, on 22 February two years ago, of the Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio. Together with him, in the convoy of the World Food Programme, the carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci and the driver Mustapha Milambo lost their lives. They …

2 Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

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Madam President, Swedish Defence Minister Jonson, Commissioner Hahn, ladies and gentlemen, anyone who believes in the principles and values of the current rules-based international order knows that they must oppose Russian aggression, for various reasons and moral duties. We cannot allow the use of force to annex territories of other states; We cannot allow the return of imperialism and colonizati…

14 Dec

2022

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the contributions that I have been able to listen carefully to, but the questions of this oral question session today could be asked by all European citizens after the events of . They are a harsh sentence of history, democracy and our freedom. We have discovered, therefore, that not only China, for example through the Chinese police stations infil…

13 Dec

2022

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Prospects for the two-State solution for Israel and Palestine (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we all need a spirit and a mentality of normalisation made up of many small steps aimed at building peace. We need those simple human predispositions that are already expressed in the agreements of Abraham: strengthen peace, not destroy it as Iran or Qatar do by arming terrorism; promoting coexistence, human dignity, freedom, cooperation, tolerance and respect; …

13 Dec

2022

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Suspicions of corruption from Qatar and the broader need for transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Qatargate, which concerns NGOs, trade unions, individuals, assistants and Members of the European Parliament, is the most serious political attack on European democracy in autocratic third countries since the institutions of the European Union have existed. We ask first of all for a strong criticism of Qatar and of the enemies of democracy who threaten us direct…

13 Dec

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - “Protection of strategic infrastructure from China's influence”

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Thank you, Mrs Vestager, you spoke before about the subject of defence, the defence industry. This is the great test before us. The challenge before us is to interpret, today, all this economic regulation, of which the Green Deal is a large part, in order not to further weaken our companies, to strengthen them and to be able to protect and defend territories, ports, infrastructures, everything tha…

13 Dec

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - “Protection of strategic infrastructure from China's influence”

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Vice-President Vestager for her comprehensive and comprehensive answers to the many questions. My question is in addition to that of my fellow Members to ask you to account for a whole great policy of liberalization and competitiveness that you have represented in the European Union in recent years, a policy of a few decades which, however,…

22 Nov

2022

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EU response to the increasing crackdown on protests in Iran (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, thanks also to you, Commissioner Várhelyi, for being here with us this evening, we have asked, with several colleagues, the High Representative and Ambassador Olof Skoog, to take action at the United Nations to remove Iran from the Committee on the Status of Women, an obligatory response from the European Union to the growing repression of protests in Iran. T…

22 Nov

2022

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EU-China relations (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Borrell, several facts now tell us that China is not seeking peace and quiet and I wonder: Where is the example of balance and trade reciprocity that the European Commission seeks to establish with China both bilaterally and at the WTO? All this does not materialize, and so our debate indicates the clear political will to safeguard a free, multipolar, rules-b…

22 Nov

2022

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Question Time (VPC/HR) - The impact on third countries of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine in relation to the “Black Sea Grain Initiative” agreement

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Mr. High Representative, thank you for your reply. In order to resolve quickly the obstacles of the "Black Sea Grain Initiative", which has its own peculiarities, for example it does not contain a provision for dispute settlement, and which grants the Secretary-General and Turkey a high degree of independence as mediators, and this seems to me to be the most important practical point of the agreem…

22 Nov

2022

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Question Time (VPC/HR) - The impact on third countries of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine in relation to the “Black Sea Grain Initiative” agreement

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Mr. High Representative, thank you for your clarifying words. Looking to the future, we can say that the food crisis could kill more people than those affected by the pandemic. Food insecurity and world hunger have shocking numbers: in Afghanistan 20 million, in Yemen 19 million, in the Sahel 18 million, in the Horn of Africa 37 million. What Ukraine was putting into the global market before the w…

19 Oct

2022

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EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Várhelyi, ladies and gentlemen, since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the European Union has shown itself to be a community of shared intentions and values, a beacon of democracy and the rule of law. By promoting peace, our states have become stronger together. Enlargement is now an essential objective to strengthen the Union and promote more peace and stability, p…

18 Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Protecting critical infrastructure in the EU against attacks and countering hybrid attacks

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Mr Vice-President, do you know that Italy is the seventh country in the world for cyber attacks? The first country in Europe. There is therefore a need to support an important process because Italy is a strategic country compared to some large infrastructures; At the beginning of the debate those submarines were mentioned, but there are also many others. What are you going to do?…

18 Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Protecting critical infrastructure in the EU against attacks and countering hybrid attacks

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Vice-President, it has been very interesting to hear your words and I hope that you are right in quickly building this shield for European countries, consisting of the ERC directive, the NIS 2, the Cyber Resilience Act, which is really effective, otherwise Mr Glucksmann, who has already highlighted our delays, will be right. Then I ask you: Will this …

4 Oct

2022

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr High Representative, many of us would have liked the courage of your words today also on the part of the European Union in boycotting the inauguration ceremony in Raisi in August 2021, because it is on the actions that we come and we will be judged. I would therefore like you to be clearer about the scope of these sanctions, so that they are as real and …

4 Jul

2022

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Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, France's failure to extradite to Italy ten red brigadiers for acts of terrorism committed during the lead years is a controversial page in European history. Those ten terrorists are European citizens who have used violence to kill innocent lives and servants of the state, have endangered democracy and the rule of law, have denied pluralism, tolerance, justice…

18 May

2022

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2021 Report on Albania (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I agree with President Roberta Metsola that the European Union must think of ways to speed up the enlargement process in the Western Balkans, because stability in the immediate neighbourhood means stability in the Union. And in the face of this new geopolitical context, we must clearly find a way to think about our Europe and its unity, without weakening it from…

18 May

2022

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2021 Report on North Macedonia (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to the rapporteur for his work. North Macedonia confirms its position in the liberal and democratic tradition of the European Union and NATO, of which it has been an active member since 2020. In addition, it aligns with the European foreign and security and defence policy line also against unjustified and illegal Russian aggression, having decided to s…

3 May

2022

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EU preparedness against cyber-attacks following Russia invasion on Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President Schinas, the issue of the European Union's preparedness against cyber-attacks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine is mainly influenced by the different level and degree of preparedness of the Member States. Strong Member States make a strong Union, but this applies in all fields, in all sectors and in all domains. The current Italian governm…

5 Apr

2022

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Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to recall the words of High Representative Borrell when she said that no religious or social reason could ever justify the unequal treatment of women in Afghanistan. For us Europeans it is even more unacceptable and I particularly welcome the words of the foreign ministers of many countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Be…

5 Apr

2022

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - Security and the EU's strategic compass

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So I ask you, High Representative, what else can the European Union do in its political organisation to support its NATO member states in the common European defence effort?

5 Apr

2022

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - Security and the EU's strategic compass

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the High Representative for being here today. I would like to return to the issue of NATO. Very briefly, I would ask you what are the main obstacles that you see in the implementation of the Strategic Compass and its roadmap, with reference to the complementarity between the European Union and NATO and above all how the strategic concept, which you have …

15 Feb

2022

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank President McAllister for his report. In our reports, as also stressed by President Loiseau, there are key topics for the economic well-being and security of European citizens, especially for the lessons learned from the pandemic. Mr Borrell, yesterday President Lagarde made clear reference to negative factors on the well-being of our citize…

15 Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Borrell, the Member States, together with the European Union, European citizens and European businesses, have great challenges in their relations with Africa. It is a question of balancing economic expansionism and Chinese trade and of seizing together with the African peoples all the opportunities for balanced social development, but bearing in mind that …