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Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate on the energy crisis risks being the same as all the debates that have taken place so far and risks having the same result as the previous debates: Nothingness. We know that if the gas price cap, on which the price of all electricity is formed, had been introduced when the majority of European states demanded it, we would have saved ourselves a bl…

23

Nov

2022

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, so far, what the left has demanded has been done on immigration. What was the result? Trafficking in human beings, thousands of deaths at sea, thousands of illegal immigrants on our territories, undeclared work with starvation wages and no guaranteed rights, labor available to organized crime, loss of security in our cities, a squalid and politicized hospitality…

21

Nov

2022

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Situation of human rights in the context of the FIFA world cup in Qatar (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate on human rights in Qatar comes 12 years late. Addressing it today that the world championship has already begun sounds hypocritical, and this is not the first time this has happened in this House. What will not be discussed, unfortunately, is the reason that pushes Doha to invest its great economic resources to host the most popular sporting event…

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Nov

2022

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Gentiloni, when the NRRPs were drawn up and approved, we were in a very different geopolitical context from the current one. A year ago, the production of energy across Europe was unfortunately not our priority, nor was production from renewable sources. For example, in the Italian plan, in the measure called "renewables and batteries", only one bil…

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Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the cost of the energy bill is no longer sustainable for households and is giving the coup de grace to productive companies, which are still bleeding from the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19. There are many measures that the European Union could have taken to contain the cost of energy: the cap on gas prices, the decoupling of energy prices, …

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Oct

2022

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Humanitarian situation after the devastating floods in Pakistan and the climate crisis (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to express my solidarity and closeness to the people of Pakistan, also on behalf of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia of which I am chairman. Just yesterday I met the ambassador and we took stock of the drama that is taking place in Pakistan, as well as the aid that Europe is bringing in recent weeks. Concret…

5

Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately, this war involves us all, indirectly on the military level, certainly on the economic level. Two mistakes should not be made. The first is that we must not make lonely choices, especially in energy matters. The cap on the price of gas and electricity, if it finally arrives in the coming days, will still come too late for companies and families in …

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Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the escalation of energy prices in Europe has certainly increased because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it began earlier, in conjunction with the post-COVID recovery, because of the financial speculation chronically affecting the European energy market. Whatever measures are rightly taken to lower the cost of bills for businesses and households will…

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Sep

2022

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive finds us in a very different geopolitical context than a year ago. We can now be consistent with what they said then: Not many others in here can say the same thing. The increase of energy from renewable sources is a goal to be achieved as soon as possible, provided that it is combined with the objective of energy a…

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Jul

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022 (continuation of debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Council has had a contradictory outcome. On the one hand it condemned the violence of the Russian army and the use of gas to finance Putin's war, on the other hand it postponed until next autumn the possibility of introducing a cap on the price of gas, thus allowing Putin to sell less but earn more. A year ago the price of gas was 18 euros, yesterda…

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Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the vote we are about to cast is the clearest proof of the hypocrisy, ideological extremism and technological ignorance that arm the environmentalism of the left. Excluding investments in nuclear energy from the European taxonomy is a choice that favors global warming since nuclear does not emit CO2 into the air. Similarly, excluding investments in the extractio…

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Jun

2022

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Gas storage (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I come straight to the point. It is right that the Member States of the European Union should strive for minimum and compulsory gas storage, which is necessary to overcome the coming winter, but it is also right that a cap on the price of gas should be introduced, because it makes no sense to reduce dependence on Russian gas by paying more and more for it every …

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Jun

2022

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The human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the Xinjiang police files

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a bitter coincidence that we are debating this resolution on respect for human rights in Xinjiang on the very day this Parliament votes to further increase Europe's energy dependence on the Chinese communist regime. Where do we manufacture the solar panels we buy in Europe? Where do you process 95% of the polysilicon needed to run photovoltaic cells? In…

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May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it took a few weeks to destroy the lives of too many people in Ukraine, but also to destroy your green utopia, which in recent years has given priority to reducing CO2 emissions rather than the energy independence of the European Union, with its consequences for peace in Europe. I'll give just one example, having only one minute. President von der …

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Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the blind advance in the energy transition passes through this House today and draws new life from the content of this report, a document which, despite some appreciable efforts, betrays an ideological approach that is not technical, unrealistic or even justified from an environmental point of view, given that it is at least imprecise to say that an electric …

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Feb

2022

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The EU priorities for the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (continuation of debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing the impact of climate change on the situation of women and I, frankly, cannot understand how global warming can have a different impact depending on gender. I also believe that in this text there is a discriminatory view of women, as when they overlap their condition with LGBTIQ, ignoring the fact that a woman is a woman, regardless of who…

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Jan

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a confederal Europe with common objectives in foreign policy, economy, culture and defence, but which does not violate the sovereignty of the nations that compose it: This was the idea of one of his predecessors, President De Gaulle. Unfortunately, that is not your idea, President Macron. My political group and I are fighting democratically but firmly the pro…

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Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you will excuse me if I do not call you "chair", as the guidelines for an inclusive language would like, but I would feel uncomfortable with the Italian translation of "chair" instead of "chairman". Just as I hope you will not be offended, Commissioner Schinas, if I wish you a Merry Christmas instead of seasonal greetings, which mean nothing but are on the sc…

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate allows me to be more explicit than usual. There are two ways to be an ecologist. The first is that of conservatives like us, who set themselves the goal of preserving what is beautiful and sacred they have received as an inheritance from their parents in order to be able to pass it on to their children. And there is another category of ecologists, th…

23

Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are speaking for the last time about the new common agricultural policy. Even for us conservatives it is not a perfect fit. We would have preferred less bureaucracy and more simplification, but we appreciate the increased budget of 22 billion, support for young farmers, crisis aid, attention to geographical indications and quality schemes. We particular…

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Oct

2021

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The rise of right-wing extremism and racism in Europe (in light of recent events in Rome) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic Party obtained this debate last Thursday, perhaps thinking of putting the Italian centre-right in difficulty a few days before the local elections. I want to remind myself and the whole House that the head of the delegation of the Democratic Party is one of those who voted against the resolution condemning fascism, Nazism and communism. This de…

7

Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately, the European Asylum Agency will not be a turning point in the management of migration. We all know that it was the European border countries that held back the closure of the negotiations on this regulation for years and we know that the negotiations were unblocked when the border countries were offered the postponement of the tasks to be carried …

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Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the rise in the cost of energy is massacring businesses and households in Europe, but it is only the beginning if the environmental issue is not purged of the ideological violence of the left. The race in the dark towards the energy transition risks damaging both economic development and the environment. And there's worse: The Timmermans strategy risks damagi…

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Sep

2021

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Media freedom and further deterioration of the Rule of law in Poland (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is an illegitimate political attempt to overthrow the conservative governments elected in Poland and Hungary, to replace them with socialist governments, and I am disappointed that the EPP lends itself to this design. In pursuing this attempt, every day we are witnessing an instrumentalisation of the concept of the rule of law. Today with this motion we ev…

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Jul

2021

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 June 2021 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Council should have dealt with the fight against COVID-19, economic recovery and immigration, as requested by the Italian Prime Minister, but instead it dealt with a national law on sex education in schools, on combating paedophilia, not a law of the Orbán government, mind you, but a law of the Hungarian parliament, a free and democratic parliame…