What Franco spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, at the end of three years of work, we are finally giving the European Union a new legal framework to prevent and combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The new legislation is a huge step forward in the European strategy against transnational crime, because it will finally make it possible to harmonise the existing national rules, which at the mo…

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, respect for the rule of law must be our top political and institutional priority. For this reason, it is regrettable that the passivity of the bodies that have the duty to monitor the protection of the rights of European citizens has led the situation to deteriorate so worryingly in Hungary and Poland. Our task is to defuse with regulatory and p…