What Pietro spoke about.

10 Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this is certainly not the reform we wanted and, above all, this is not the appropriate response to those seeking protection in Europe. A reform that does not correct the inequities of the past, but that, on the contrary, masks solidarity with policies of prevention and repression, in a desperate attempt to defend the European "fortress". If adopted, this reform …

29 Feb

2024

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Major interpellations (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, madness seems to have taken over the right: madness and inhumanity. This idea of building floating centres in international waters to examine asylum applications and prevent migrants from arriving in Europe is something that makes me shiver. Do you listen when you speak? Do you realize what you are proposing? It's almost like a race of inhumanity. In England, co…

18 Jan

2024

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EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the protection of our seas and the environment is something that is particularly close to my heart. It is not just a task, it is a mission that involves all of us and that we must guarantee to future generations. By doing this, however, we cannot forget the fishermen, the true guardians of the sea, the first to defend the biodiversity on which their and our sour…

4 Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this House has been working on the legislative proposals contained in the Pact for three years. We have played the role of co-legislator correctly, we have dismissed texts resulting from compromises between different political groups and now, on the way home, I hear the Commission and the Council talking about firefighters, architects, ten-point documents, agree…

3 Oct

2023

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The 10-year commemoration since the tragedy in Lampedusa(statement by the President)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ten years have passed since that terrible night. I still hear the cries of the survivors and the cries of those who had lost loved ones during the crossing and I still see the long and endless row of sacks of corpses lying on the Favaloro pier: 368. I was there, I welcomed those bodies and also examined them, one by one. Many and I too believed that in the fa…

2 Oct

2023

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Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the tenth anniversary of the terrible Lampedusa shipwreck will be remembered in the Chamber tomorrow with a statement by the President. The commemoration and the minutes of silence are certainly significant. However, I believe that it is important to accompany this moment with statements from all the political groups. On behalf of my group, I therefore ask th…

12 Sep

2023

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EU-Tunisia Agreement - aspects related to external migration policy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, their names were Fatti Dosso and Marie, a young mother and her little girl who died of hardship, without water or food, embraced in the desert between Libya and Tunisia. They came from Côte d'Ivoire and they were 30 years old, she and you are the little girl. And in that desert they arrived after President Kais Saied opened the "black hunt", as it has been calle…

12 Jul

2023

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The need for EU action on search and rescue in the Mediterranean (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, let us make one thing clear: There are no missing people at sea. Whoever is not rescued in the immediacy of the shipwreck is destined to die. The numbers provided by international organizations that speak of missing persons are numbers of people who have died and whose bodies are returned from time to time by the sea. And, dear Alessandra, I have received man…

14 Jun

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Sudan, in particular the death of children trapped by fighting

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, letting children die under bombs is as inhuman as letting them die of starvation and starvation. In conflict zones, they are the innocent victims of the delirium of men. It is only that in some parts of the world, such as Sudan, wars are consumed in total indifference and complete political and media disinterest. There are very few channels of information tha…

11 May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, my father was a fisherman, I myself was a fisherman. I know how hard and tiring this work is and how many sacrifices in the course of life the men and women who are at sea make. Commissioner, the Commission's actions must be designed not only for fishermen, but also with fishermen, from Lithuania to Lampedusa. We need sustainable rules from every p…

10 May

2023

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Externalising asylum applications and making funding to third countries conditional on the implementation of return agreements (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate is surreal. But what do you want to outsource? Stop inventing legally and humanitarianally impracticable solutions and clearly admit that you, these people, do not want them. That these people die at sea, that they are locked up in the camps, that they are sent back to the places from which they flee for you is indifferent, the only thing that int…

18 Apr

2023

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The need for European solidarity in saving lives in the Mediterranean, in particular in Italy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after 30 years of deaths at sea, do we still need to reiterate that human lives must be saved? Instead of mourning the dead, let's save these people. How? Certainly not by rejecting them, let alone preventing them from arriving in Europe. If we want to discuss solidarity, we are talking about a European Mare Nostrum, a search and rescue system at sea that is not…

15 Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the images of the corpses on Cutro beach and those floating off Libya do not give me peace. My mind went back to ten years ago, when in Lampedusa I was among the first to rescue those 500 people and to inspect 368 corpses. What has happened and continues to happen over time is the manifesto of a Europe that cannot manage migration. It's a shame! It's outrageous!…

18 Jan

2023

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

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Who should be in charge? In the meantime, we have to understand that we have taken it almost for granted that these people should come this way, and you provoked this situation. Because if these people come this way it is because someone has forced them to come this way and it is the conditions of hardship that we have all caused in Africa. We have colonized and enslaved and plundered them. Even t…

18 Jan

2023

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I come from an island, Lampedusa, my island, which boasts the most beautiful sea in the world, a sea that has become a place of death and suffering. In addition to this, the right-wing government is criminalizing, through decree-laws, search and rescue activities at sea by NGOs, further worsening the situation. And let us not be fooled by the title…

23 Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, in my country, Italy, the campaign of criminalisation continues against NGOs engaged in rescue and rescue activities at sea, accused of acting as pull factors, accused of playing the game of smugglers, accused even when they seek shelter in a safe port. This instrumentalisation of the obligation to rescue at sea and, I stress, of the legal and moral obligation to provid…

22 Nov

2022

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Situation in Libya (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission is well aware of the situation in Libya, not by hearsay, but because I have experienced first-hand the horrors of those who have arrived in Lampedusa. Of these people I have collected desperate stories, I have seen the signs of unprecedented violence. Bodies mutilated, skinned alive, even raped, I saw them with my own eyes, I touched them, I tr…

10 Nov

2022

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, for a few days now the voice of hatred against migrants has been enriched with new words: "selective landings" and "residual cargo". Not in reference to defective goods or damaged meat to be sent back to the sender but to define the shipwrecked, people who were forbidden to disembark in a safe port. Hateful words, which take on an even more serious…

18 Oct

2022

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Impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on migration flows to the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the horrors of this war continue under the addicted eyes of many of us and with the approval of a large part of the international community. Bombings multiply, civilian casualties increase, those who can leave everything and flee, fueling flows to Europe, which this time welcomes, which activates a directive and shows solidarity, but which unfortun…

3 Oct

2022

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Statements by the President

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, nine years have passed since that terrible night. Since then, the tears, the voices, the torment and the silence of the survivors have persecuted me, because I was there, in Lampedusa, to help the living and to count the dead. Today we pay tribute not only to the 368 people who lost their lives in front of my island that night, swallowed up by the sea in thei…

14 Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not dwell on the long list of alleged violations. Those who preceded me have illustrated well the dramatic situation in which millions of Hungarian citizens are victims of the autocratic regime of Orbán, a regime that undermines the institutions in depth and inevitably ends up undermining the fundamental rights and freedoms of all European citizens. Yes, be…

6 Apr

2022

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Violations of right to seek asylum and non-refoulement in the EU Member States (debate)

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I answer this question quickly. I think that those who come to our doors, who knock and who are not even allowed to apply for asylum are entitled. Then let's allow him to apply for asylum, which is forbidden. And I saw it with my own eyes because, dear colleague, I have been both on the borders with Belarus, I have been to Croatia and I come from Lampedusa, where I have been for thirty years to se…

6 Apr

2022

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Violations of right to seek asylum and non-refoulement in the EU Member States (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is showing great solidarity at a time when an atrocious war is being fought a few kilometres from our borders. Countries traditionally hostile to reception have opened their doors to Ukrainian citizens but continue to keep them closed to the many Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians who are denied their right to asylum and reception. We are talking abo…

8 Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we were not ready for a new conflict on our doorstep, we were not prepared to face the consequences of brutal aggression, indiscriminate attacks on civilians, including children, many children. We were not even prepared to welcome millions of people on the run. But this time, at least, the Union is showing unity and solidarity. Countries traditionally opposed to…

15 Dec

2021

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The proposed Council decision on provisional emergency measures for the external border with Belarus based on article 78(3) TFEU (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, ladies and gentlemen, I saw with my own eyes the desperation of these people trapped like animals on the border with Belarus, a few weeks ago, together with my colleagues Benifei and Majorino, we were there. Just as we have seen episodes of violence by the Polish authorities. I expected words of condemnation against Member States that reject, mistreat and d…