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May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, some political groups on the right are trying to make an equivalence between rejecting current legislative proposals and an alleged defence of farmers. That, to defend farmers, nothing can change or that this is not the time for change. A fallacious rhetoric that purports to be on the side of farmers, but is not. It is not, because the vast majorit…

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May

2023

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Schools scheme for fruit, vegetables, milk and dairy products (short presentation)

Mr President, in fact, international studies indicate that, on average, less than half of children eat fruit on a daily basis and consumption is even less frequent at ages 13 to 15. The fruit, vegetable and milk distribution scheme is therefore of great value in countering this trend and promoting access to healthy and sustainable nutrition for all European children, regardless of their socio-econ…

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Mar

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment" (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the European Citizens' Initiatives are one of the most enriching and demonstrative instruments of the vitality of the civic participation of our citizens, and so my first word is a strong and special greeting to all the authors of this initiative. Protecting pollinators is vital for the future of agricultural production and our food security, in particular as regards cr…

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Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we must learn lessons from these moments of crisis. And one of the lessons of this crisis is clearly the need to increase the strategic autonomy of the European Union, also in the area of fertiliser production, one of the most important and cost-intensive factors of production – as we have heard here. The strategic autonomy of the European agricultural sector th…

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Jan

2023

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Small-scale fisheries situation in the EU and future perspectives (debate)

Madam President, I would like to begin by welcoming the work of the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs on this report, which is important – it has been said here for around 76 %, but there are even figures pointing to 85 % of the European Union fishing fleet; I'm talking about the small-scale fleet. We know that, because of human characteristics, working at sea has always been more difficult th…

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Jan

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - Food price inflation in Europe

Commissioner, I am here on this side, I do not know if you have seen where I am, since you have always looked in another direction, and not exactly here. I appreciate the detail of the information you brought. In any case, it is always a question of what else the Commission can then do to protect the interests of the most vulnerable consumers. Thank you for your explanations and details.…

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Jan

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - Food price inflation in Europe

Mr President, Commissioner, we know that the main problem with food safety in the European Union is not availability, but accessibility to food. This rise in the prices of energy, fertilisers, and also – it is good to say – some speculation in the markets has led to an escalation in prices, and this is reflected and constraining above all for the most vulnerable households, and we know that these …

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Dec

2022

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I did not address you a moment ago, because I had not yet seen you while I was speaking. It was a pleasure listening to you. I would like to say very briefly that, in fact, I would like to thank all the colleagues and shadow rapporteurs who have collaborated on this report very strongly. I have to say that it was a very committed and very intense work in order to ach…

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Dec

2022

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I see rural areas as decisive in addressing the major societal challenges that we face, particularly in these difficult times, with an ongoing war in Ukraine inflicted by Russia and the consequences of the pandemic. The future of rural areas, which cover 80% of the European Union's territory, is more important than ever for Europe's food security and the succ…

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Oct

2022

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Global food security as follow-up to the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we know today that there are 75 to 95 million people, new people, living in extreme poverty; 150 million more people are chronically undernourished; there are about 828 million people affected by different levels of hunger. Now, all G20 agriculture ministers have shown themselves to be aware of this data and are well aware of the multiple reasons that explain th…

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Oct

2022

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The urgent need for an EU strategy on fertilisers to ensure food security in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our farmers are living through very difficult times, facing successive crises, from one of the worst droughts in memory, with particularly devastating effects in southern Europe, to the impacts of the Russian war against Ukraine, with a focus on shortages and the brutal increase in the price of fertilisers. These and other recent disruptions have a…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

Mr President, I would just like to thank the Commissioner for her answer and I believe that she confirms - if I may interpret it freely - the importance of actually having a rural strategy in the next European Union funding programme, accompanied, of course, by national and regional strategies. This is because it is very useful, effectively, this idea that is conveyed here and that we know is work…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

Commissioner, as we know, according to Expon, by 2050 the population of Europe's urban regions is expected to increase by about 24 million people, while people in rural areas will, in principle, have a reduction of about 8 million. So we are talking here about a loss and, if we think that this happens particularly when we talk about young people and more qualified people, this puts rural areas, as…

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Oct

2022

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Striving for a sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture: the way forward (debate)

Madam President, I should like to begin by thanking Mrs Aguilera and the shadow rapporteurs for their excellent work, both for their competence and technical rigour and for their clear ability to strike the right balance between the three pillars of sustainability for the aquaculture sector. Competitive and resilient aquaculture is key to achieving the objectives of Europe’s strategic food autonom…

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Oct

2022

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Momentum for the Ocean: strengthening Ocean Governance and Biodiversity (debate)

Madam President, in this brief speech I would like to welcome the commitment of all those who are actively involved in this important work. The health of the oceans and their biodiversity is essential to life, as we already know, as well as to the long-term sustainability of the different sectors of the blue economy. From contributing to the food security of millions of people, to providing renewa…

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Sep

2022

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Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, cohesion policy has indeed been crucial in promoting convergence within Europe. And yet many regions are lagging behind, with a clear focus on our rural areas. The Union’s policies and actions, combined with those at national and regional level, are, as has been said so often, key to enabling rural European citizens to meet the challenges of demographic loss, lack of…

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Sep

2022

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Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, climate change is clear! Europe is experiencing a dramatic drought that, according to the JRC, may even be the worst in 500 years. The scenario is particularly severe in southern Europe. Just to give you an idea, Commissioner, as early as May this year, in my country, 97% of the entire territory was in severe drought, and since July the whole territory has been in sever…

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Sep

2022

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Conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) - Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area: conservation and management measures (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you very much for your comments, which I have listened to very carefully. I would like to underline the following: What this Parliament is asking for, and what we do in our work, is that the measures always have the highest technical and legal rigour and that they are precisely implemented in time, because we have fishermen practising their profession in the areas…

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Sep

2022

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Conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) - Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area: conservation and management measures (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by recalling that on 16 February this year the Commission presented a proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2019/833 in order to transpose into European Union law the conservation and enforcement measures adopted by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, to which the European Union has been a contracting party since 1979. The main objective of …

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Jul

2022

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Facilitating export of Ukrainian agricultural products: key for Ukrainian economy and global food security (debate)

Madam President, in fact, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has created enormous pressure on global food security, which, as we know, has already been very weakened since the COVID-19 period, and so we are talking about a worrying increase in the number of people in the world facing imminent hunger. And if we think that more than 36, about 40 nations around the world imported more than 50% of their gra…

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

I would like the treatment to be the same and it is a very quick question, since the Commissioner's answer was also very quick, okay? It is very fast and I would like to ask, if I may, to what extent the issue of integrated pest management is being addressed in this new legislation, not least with regard to greater homogeneity of the rules on integrated pest management in the context of the Europe…

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Madam President, I am sorry, but I would like to ask a second question, if I am allowed to do the same as my colleagues.

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Madam President, Commissioner, I defend and believe that the objectives outlined in the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies are key to establishing the path, the path towards more sustainable agri-food systems. And, in that sense, they should obviously also serve to stimulate the emergence of innovative and environmentally friendly solutions, such as biological active substances or the promot…

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Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

Madam President, as has often been said, the islands of the European Union generally face permanent structural disadvantages, such as the small territorial dimension, often associated with a very difficult topography, low population density, which is also reflected in small internal markets that are very dependent on local products, which they can only mitigate through another huge dependency: mar…

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May

2022

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A sustainable blue economy in the EU: the role of fisheries and aquaculture (short presentation)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, as rapporteur for this own-initiative report, I should like to begin by congratulating the Commission proposal on the new strategy for a sustainable blue economy in the European Union. I must say, however, that I also regret the absence of specific targets for the different sectors, in particular for fisheries and aquaculture. Fisheries and aquacul…