What Mario spoke about.

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Dec

2022

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Addressing persistent challenges in the aviation sector and the impacts on passengers, workers, capacity and safety (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the problems currently facing the airport sector are primarily linked to an employment policy that has not been able to protect workers during the pandemic. Thousands of employees have been laid off and now airlines and airport companies are struggling to restore the missing personnel, overloading the one in force with work. This situation is worrying because…

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Nov

2022

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Legal protection for rainbow families exercising free movement, in particular the Baby Sara case (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are faced with a tragic situation where bureaucracy does not recognise the reality in our society. It is paradoxical that, despite the rights recognised in the Treaties, effective action is still not being taken in the European Union to protect citizens, including rainbow families. Life, family and love are born and created beyond the ideological patterns tha…

19

Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately, we all remember in this House the former Member of the European Parliament, Lorenzo Fontana, who was wearing a Putin T-shirt. Today Fontana, who has also defined gay couples as "crap", is the third office of the Italian State. We do not do better in the Senate, because the second office of the State, La Russa, shows on television its own collectio…

18

Oct

2022

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Commission Work Programme 2023 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is facing its greatest challenge, that of revising its economic governance. The Stability Pact has shown its weaknesses over the years and no longer meets the needs of European citizens. The time has come for a profound reform that puts an end to austerity once and for all and promotes green investment and the sustainable and energy transition…

22

Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, President von der Leyen, as Nelson Mandela said, 'Peace is a dream and it can become a reality', but to build it you must be able to dream. The atrocities carried out by the Russian army in Ukraine are enormous and we Europeans will never forget it, but peace is needed now to avoid new and far more serious atrocities. After four months of war, it's time to move …

7

Jun

2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, electric cars are the future, petrol cars and diesel cars are the past. In a few years the majority of citizens will have a charging pole under the house, while the combustion engine will be just the memory of a yellowed photograph. This is good for our planet and for future generations, but also for our pockets, because we will be able to fill up …

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May

2022

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Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, before the pandemic, now the war in Ukraine, the transport sector and the tourism sector are again in a state of serious suffering and with the increase in energy costs that are reflected in the increase in the price of tickets, travelling is also becoming impossible for many families. Floating inflation in transport and tourism risks creating new forms of …

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Apr

2022

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Use of vehicles hired without drivers for the carriage of goods by road (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes good intentions hide risks. We have to use the most environmentally friendly vehicles, and this is to achieve those climate goals that we have set ourselves here in the EU, and certainly rental is a useful tool for companies to manage those temporary peaks in demand. But we must ensure that this directive does not become an instrument for circumvent…

14

Feb

2022

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2020 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the rapporteur and the European Ombudsman for their work. Over the years, the Ombudsman's recommendations and role have brought citizens closer to the institutions, but important steps remain to be taken. All too often, the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies do not fully and uniformly comply with the Ombudsman's recommendation…

22

Nov

2021

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The revision of the Financial Regulation in view of the entry into force of the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Financial Regulation is the engine of the European Union and without it the administrative and political machinery stops. We cannot afford setbacks and we must ensure that the fundamental principles of the EU are an active part of this regulation. The fuel that moves Europe is and must be the protection of the rule of law and democratic and transparent co…

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Oct

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the 250% increase in the price of gas from January to today is a blow for the economy, for businesses, for those millions of citizens who will find themselves at a crossroads: Do I pay the bills or turn off the heating? This is a problem that affects the whole of Europe, without exception, and a European problem is answered with European solutions. The Commis…

19

Oct

2021

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Coronavirus crisis has taught us that only with ambitious policies, such as recovery, can important results be achieved in the interest of citizens. That is why we can only be disappointed by the cuts proposed by the Council to the programmes for innovation, strategic investment, internal security and the fight against climate change. Funding for health a…

6

Oct

2021

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The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Gentiloni, the Recovery Fund is the biggest European political gamble of the last thirty years: supports the environmental transition, helps young people and businesses in the digital reconversion and creates development in the territories of the South, which have a huge infrastructure gap to fill. Citizens believe in the Recovery Fund, let's not di…

5

Oct

2021

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Assessing the Union’s measures for the EU tourism sector as the end of the Summer season nears (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we must be able to assess whether the instruments made available to the tourism sector have enabled our companies to withstand the crisis caused by the pandemic. The data show us a slight recovery in the sector, even if non-European tourists have been missing, but of course we are far from the 2019 data. What I want to understand is whether we have been…

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Oct

2021

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EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030 – Recommendations on next steps towards "Vision Zero" (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the objective we have set ourselves for 2050 is ambitious and unfortunately we must remember that we have failed to reach the 2020 target of halving road deaths and understanding what weaknesses need to be corrected. Some countries are lagging behind in the implementation of the measures to be taken, and at the expense of them are the weakest sections of th…

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Jul

2021

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Connecting Europe Facility - Streamlining measures for the realisation of the TEN-T - Railway safety and signalling: Assessing the state of play of the ERTMS deployment (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, European citizens are calling for efficient, fast and sustainable transport. This is the way to connect Europe and it is on these objectives that the 30 billion that the European Union allocates must be spent. But there are many lights and also shadows. The investments on digitalization and the strengthening of the corridors that lead from Northern…