What Sandro spoke about.

Madam President, cybersecurity is a necessity to preserve our democracies and sovereignty. While software such as Pegasus can be useful in the fight against terrorism, it is vital that we establish a clear legislative framework to control its use. Journalists, political opponents, but also several of us, ladies and gentlemen, have been victims of different types of cyber attacks, and I know something about this personally, Commissioner. The battle against cybercrime must be fought at national and European level, but also from a multilateral perspective, reflecting on an international cybersecurity agreement to ban certain practices, based for example on the model of the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. Pegasus has also highlighted threats and violations from within the EU and we must demand full transparency from the Member States that have used Pegasus, starting with Hungary. Which other Member States used it? We have the right to know, European citizens have the right to know.

Madam President, since Friday Lebanon has had a government. This small step was one of the conditions for international aid, but we need to be very careful; The fact that Lebanon has a government does not mean that the European Union must refrain from punishing some of its corrupt leaders who are guilty of the country’s non-stability. Our policy of sanctions against Lebanese leaders, even with a government, must be implemented in the coming weeks with the vote on a first list of names, since we now have a very clear political and legal framework, voted last July. We also expect this new government to guarantee the holding, smooth running and transparency of the elections in 2022, with a view to the legislative elections on 8 May, followed by the municipal elections and the presidential elections. Ladies and gentlemen, for the Lebanese, we Europeans must be there.

Madam President, in 2016 in the United Kingdom and Italy, in 2017 in France, during the COVID-19 crisis in several countries, we witnessed serious interference that undermines our democratic life and supports far-left and far-right nationalist and populist forces. And the speeches by some colleagues in this Chamber today, from ECR, ID and the Left, only confirm all this. However, the observation is very clear: Russia has been playing a dangerous game for too long. It has been joined by other countries, such as, above all, China and Venezuela. Europe must be there. We need to fully integrate disinformation into the common foreign policy and decide by majority on sanctions in case of interference. Proven funding of political parties from abroad must be constantly identified and blocked. To repeat what you said, Mr High Representative: even if being right for a while is good, acting is even better.