What Sandro spoke about.

7

Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Europe and India share vital interests and face similar challenges. We both push to rethink and relaunch multilateralism, starting with the reform of the UN. We have both a strong interest in contributing to global stability. We should also push India to rethink its relationship with Russia and to be very careful with its recent openings toward China. We are both convin…

7

Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, I would like to highlight two challenges in particular. The first is courage in the face of the hypocrisy of some states that talk about innovation, but practice closure and erect new barriers. The Commission must show that courage. Between 2019 and 2023, the number of infringement cases dropped by 60%. I therefore call on the Commission not to fear confrontation. The other challe…

10

Sep

2025

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Detention of EU citizens in the occupied areas of Cyprus

Mr President, five EU citizens visited their own properties and, just for that, they were detained without credible evidence, denied medical care and even their lawyer was arrested. Three of them now have been released, but two are still held in unacceptable conditions, and we demand their immediate and unconditional release. And where is this happening? In the territory of our Union, in northern …

10

Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, we are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracies. Yes, the announcements by the President of the Commission this morning on media resilience and pluralism funds are a step in the right direction. We must make full use of the means at our disposal and introduce new ones. European democracy is not for sale to Putin and his useful idiots in Europe. It will never be a bargaining…

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Sep

2025

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European Social Fund (ESF+): specific measures to address strategic challenges (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, defence, decarbonisation, combating social inequalities, protecting our eastern border, these are four of our main priorities for a defence union, which we must build, and a green and just transition, which we must succeed in. To that end, we must also rethink our policies and adapt our resources. The revision of the European Social Fund makes it possible to dir…

8

Sep

2025

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Public procurement (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, dear Stéphane, the world is undergoing a profound transformation and Europe must show that it knows how to adapt. This requires, among other things, an evolution of the single market. We need to use our instruments such as public procurement in a much more strategic, coherent and simple way. Strategic, because the single market must promote and favour European businesse…

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Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

Mr President, every day we see a Union that is not efficient enough, not powerful enough and not democratic enough. This is all the more true in the face of the challenges of continental unification and the new world disorder. How can we convince our citizens and ourselves that all of a sudden Europe can survive these new challenges without solving the old ones? We need a more efficient Union, wit…

17

Jun

2025

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Two years since the devastating Tempi rail accident (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, Tempi was not a simple accident. It was foreseeable. The warnings were there, the resources too. But the state failed to act. And 57 people lost their lives. Today, a second injustice adds to the first. The Greek Government is trying to reduce this to a single mistake to avoid political responsibility. This is not justice. The families haven't forg…

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May

2025

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The fine against TikTok and the need to strengthen the protection of citizens’ rights on social media platforms (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, dear Michael, in Europe we have built a demanding and ambitious model of digital regulation and, as you recalled, Commissioner, this model will be strengthened with the entry into force of the regulation on political advertising. However, to move forward on the path of change, transparency and respect for our freedoms, our rules must be implemented strictly, concrete…

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May

2025

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Border Regions’ instrument for development and growth (BRIDGEforEU) (A10-0058/2025 - Sandro Gozi) (vote)

Mr President, as we close our second reading of the BRIDGEforEU Regulation (a bridge for Europe), we are crossing the finish line of seven years of negotiations on an instrument to remove the obsolete bureaucratic walls that hinder the lives of 150 million citizens, those living in a border region within the European Union. Allow me, Mr President, to take this opportunity to thank you personally f…

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May

2025

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Preparation of the EU-UK summit (debate)

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Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, let us respect the agreement reached on the ethics body. Pacta sunt servanda. I am addressing the EPP Group, the ECR Group and the Patriots for Europe Group: it is time to put an end to your obstruction tactics. Finally, let’s make progress on transparency and on Parliament’s role in the ethics body! This body does not impose any excessive limits on our freed…

12

Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, let us do what we have said and what we have written. Let's be consistent. We are committed to implementing Mario Draghi's strategy, based on three pillars: simplification, investment and governance, including through the revision of the Treaties. We voted in favour of the von der Leyen Commission, reaffirming these three priorities in a document s…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam Speaker, there was a time, not so far away, when major platforms were scrambling to let us know how relevant and innovative our strategy was. Honored, but not naive, we had some doubts about the progressive impulses of American platforms. Today, our doubts are confirmed: X flouts our rules, Meta abandons fact-checking and Google pretends to ignore our transparency requirements for political …

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Madam President, manipulation, opacity, undeclared funding, external interference, cancellation of the election: The last presidential election in Romania is a summary of everything we are fighting against. Of course, all this has become much easier thanks to digital platforms that believe they are exempt from any rule. TikTok played a central role in this massive campaign of manipulation. However…

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Oct

2024

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Empowering the Single Market to deliver a sustainable future and prosperity for all EU citizens (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Caro Enrico, the EU’s biggest success story, the Single Market, needs to be renewed and completed. ‘Rico’ Letta asserts this forcefully, and he is right. Renewed, as it is impossible to achieve the green and digital transition without making the single market more sustainable and simplified for producers and consumers. Completed, because we need to remove all…

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Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to draw your attention to Platform X, formerly Twitter. First, due to drastic reductions in its teams, X is no longer able to comply with the Digital Services Act and effectively moderate crises such as the events on Capitol Hill or the recent riots in the UK. Instead of containing them, X instead acted as an accelerator. Second, resea…

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Apr

2024

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Pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews (debate)

Madam President, my message to the Commission, Commissioner, is very clear: Stop pretending, show courage and be bold. You know better than anyone that we cannot unify the continent without reforming the EU. It is impossible to keep the veto right in a union of 35, it does not already work at 27 – it only works for Viktor Orbán. A more powerful and democratic Europe is indispensable to exist on th…

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Apr

2024

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Common rules promoting the repair of goods (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, finally, real freedom of choice; finally, the right to repair, which is a pillar of our sustainable single market strategy, because it is impossible to achieve a true circular economy without recognising the right to repair. We have already made progress on planned obsolescence, but we are taking another step forward on our freedom to all of us, because we ar…

28

Feb

2024

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there are times when an entire generation is called upon to demonstrate that it is up to the challenges of history. We are living in one of these moments: a period of intense acceleration of history that requires a profound transformation of the Union. At 27, the EU is not able to assume all its responsibilities, especially in relation to war and the new world d…

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Feb

2024

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you again for your excellent work, thank you to the Vice-Chair of the Committee, thank you to the Spanish Presidency. The message of our work is very simple: Who is afraid of transparency? We are not afraid of transparency. We believe it is the basis of our democracies. We are introducing more transparency into the election campaign because we want to stre…

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Feb

2024

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to thank the rapporteurs Anna Donáth for the Committee on Civil Liberties, and Sabine Verheyen for the Committee on Culture, all the shadow rapporteurs, the Spanish Presidency – I hoped that the Belgian Presidency would be there to tell her to thank the Spanish Presidency – and, of course, Vice-President Věra Jourová. Thank you for you…

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Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, in 2024, all indicators are formal: disinformation, fake news and hyper-fixing are likely to increase exponentially in Europe and the rest of the world. In our fight against online disinformation, unregulated social networks represent a major danger, as shown by recent examples in Ukraine, Gaza and the various elections in Europe. With the Digital Services Act…

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Feb

2024

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Calling on the Council to take all necessary steps to reach an agreement on the European cross-border mechanism file and open negotiations with Parliament (debate)

Madam President, Minister, almost 150 million European citizens live close to an internal border. In May 2018, the European Commission proposed a mechanism to help its citizens overcome legal and administrative obstacles between neighbouring countries. But negotiations have not yet started. Now we can and must do it. In September 2023, the European Parliament asked the Commission to revise its pro…

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Jan

2024

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Fight against the resurgence of neo-fascism in Europe, also based on the parade that took place in Rome on 7 January (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that a head of government has very different responsibilities and burdens from a political leader. It is what many, even tonight, starting with Giorgia Meloni, seem to escape, even in the case of the fascist greetings of Acca Larentia. We all agree in condemning the violence of the 1970s against young boys, from the far left as well as the far right; N…