What Mario spoke about.

14 Sep

2026

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Government crackdown on the LGBTIQ+ Community in Türkiye: Türkiye’s compliance with its international commitments on non-discrimination (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what is happening in Turkey is not an isolated incident: It is the result of a precise authoritarian drift of the Erdogan government. The LGBTQ+ community is being turned into an internal enemy for ideological reasons. But doing so only fuels hatred and discrimination. Today, the European Parliament must have the courage to react forcefully. We cannot proclai…

28 Apr

2026

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, when a citizen today searches for information on search engines, he finds an answer generated by artificial intelligence: I refer, for example, to the "Google Overview", which summarizes content without bringing traffic to those who produced it. This has direct consequences: less resources for information – and therefore risk of dismissal for jo…

11 Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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International Day of Education, fighting inequalities in access to education (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Commissioner, talking about education today means which way to go. I am on the side of the public school, which in Italy has been and is the most powerful social elevator. Italy is the place where you start from the same starting point and where every girl and every boy can build their own future without being a prisoner of birth conditions. But this pr…

10 Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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21 Jan

2026

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Online piracy of sports and other live events: urgent need to address unsolved issues (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when we talk about online piracy, we are not just talking about sports or big platforms. Let's talk about the future of European culture. Piracy affects everything: films, series, music, books, information and especially affects those who work there. Behind a work there are workers, often invisible, with precarious contracts and too low compensation. Culture nee…

20 Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a click today is enough to steal a person's identity. With the deepfake, Artificial intelligence can create fake videos and audio to humiliate, blackmail and destroy a life. At the same time, on too many platforms and social networks, pornographic and hateful content spreads quickly. Younger people are the first victims of this aberration of our…

31 Mar

2025

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Situation of European academics and researchers in the US and the impact on academic freedom (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, academic freedom is under attack, not only in authoritarian regimes, but also in countries that call themselves democratic. Just think that in the United States the recent executive orders of the new Trump administration have frozen billions of dollars for research and censored areas of knowledge, such as climate change and gender issues, and all this because…

12 Mar

2025

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Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, anyone who is a father or a mother in a Member State must be a father or a mother in any other country of the Union. This principle, which should be the norm in Europe, is not, however, respected in many countries, demonstrating that a Europe of rights has yet to be born. For more than two years, the European Certificate of Parenthood has languished in a Coun…

28 Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, one in four children in Europe today lives in poverty. Then there are children whose parents are not recognized, such as those of rainbow families and children who, despite being born here in Europe, are not European citizens. Today, the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, must not be a mere circumstance: Our real…

23 Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, during this parliamentary term we have voted eight texts to respond to the scourge of violence against women and gender. Finally, we come to this House with a directive containing clear and uniform rules to combat this phenomenon, which unfortunately is still too widespread in our society. One agreement, however, is not worth the other. The wall erected by some …

13 Mar

2024

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024 (joint debate – European Semester)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I dream of a Europe in which instead of budgetary constraints there are social constraints, and instead of criteria to be respected there is respect for people. For years Brussels has imposed cuts and manoeuvres, tears and blood, massacring the middle class and fuelling social injustices. We want to put an end to all this and we dream of a Europe that imposes a …

12 Mar

2024

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Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is an emergency that Europe must face today in the most resolute way and that is psychological and sexual violence in the workplace. The latest figures are alarming: more than one in five people report harassment and the most vulnerable groups are those affected – women, migrants, the LGBTI community, people with disabilities. Ratification of the Inte…

27 Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, High Representative Borrell, in Italy the students took to the streets to call for a halt to the war in Gaza and were beaten by the police. Strongly suppressing those who call for peace is unacceptable and we would have expected condemnation from the European Commission. Because, I remember, Europe was born to unite in the name of peace. Batons can't be the solu…

27 Feb

2024

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Driving licences (debate)

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(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the harmonisation of driving licences at European level is a welcome commitment, which will help us to achieve the objective of zero road fatalities across the EU by 2050. Indeed, in 2022, more than 20 000 citizens lost their lives in a road accident in Europe. These are unacceptable numbers, which we must reduce with stricter rules and greater preventio…

7 Feb

2024

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Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday the Milan Court of Appeal annulled the transcription of the recognitions of the children of three couples of women because in Italy there is no law that provides for this. This is called discrimination and has dramatic consequences on the lives of families, people and children. The prohibition of discrimination is a principle enshrined in the foundi…

7 Feb

2024

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The EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have heard so many fine words in this House today about women's rights and gender equality, words which, however, clash with deeds. Just yesterday, an agreement was reached at the trilogue on the directive on gender-based violence, and I wonder with what business card we are presenting ourselves at the United Nations to talk about the status of women in the wo…

17 Jan

2024

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Gender aspects of the rising cost of living and the impact of the energy crisis (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the increase in the cost of living is affecting all families, but in particular it is affecting single-parent families, of which 80% are women who suffer the most from the risk of energy poverty, as well as older women who have lower pensions than men. In 2021, even before the energy crisis, more than 20 million more women than men lived below the poverty lin…

20 Nov

2023

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Children first - strengthening the Child Guarantee, two years on from its adoption - Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families (joint debate – International Day of the Rights of the Child)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as the Five Star Movement, we support the resolution on strengthening guarantee systems for vulnerable children. This is a topic dear to us and in fact I would like to bring to the attention of Europe the case of 207 Italian families who have been waiting for years to adopt Belarusian children. These are orphans who live in institutions but who are hosted by …

8 Nov

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what you see is the agenda of the last European Council, but on none of these points have European leaders reached an agreement and postponed decisions to the next Council in December. What does that mean? That on the asylum and migration pact there is a veto by Hungary of Orbán and the sovereignists; on the reform of the Stability Pact there is a wall on the…

12 Jul

2023

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in recent times we have been witnessing a progressive deterioration of the middle class, not only in terms of purchasing power but also in terms of savings and investments. The crisis of the middle class is mainly due to globalization. We are witnessing the progressive polarization between those who work but are at risk of marginalization and a small group of in…

12 Jul

2023

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this is a delicate historical moment: we are called upon to choose between a development model based on the big giants or to effectively support a European development model that focuses on man and respect for the environment. SMEs are at the heart of this development model, which is why we need to support them, first and foremost by simplifying existing legi…

14 Jun

2023

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe has been stagnating in innovation-related investment for years. The need to improve energy efficiency continues to play the role of a key driver. However, the banking system must support European companies and we must simplify the rules for our companies, first and foremost for SMEs, which are the beating heart of our economy. We must also protect Euro…

13 Jun

2023

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the agreement reached with the Council indicates the right way forward and I am happy to support it. It has been estimated that in 2027 European countries could cover 100% of the demand for lithium batteries for electric vehicles with local factories. For this, however, we need one more step: ensure that European industry becomes self-sufficient in battery pr…

9 May

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz (debate)

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Madam President, Chancellor Scholz, as the Five Star Movement we have a very clear idea of the Europe of the future: greener, more supportive and above all free from wars. On these issues, your country does its homework, we think of the minimum wage and the one trillion euro plan for renewables, but in Brussels it has a very different attitude that prevents all the other states from making the sam…