What Leoluca spoke about.

8 Oct

2026

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EU strategies for islands, coastal communities and outermost regions (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to add to the novelty of the islands, which you have mentioned, the novelty of a Commissioner and a Directorate-General and a Pact for the Mediterranean. I think it is a challenge and an opportunity to be used, if it is true, as it is true, that the Mediterranean is a real sea, I would say a continent of water, a liquid continent, more…

8 Oct

2026

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Escalations in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean following persistent Turkish provocations (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this is not the first time that Turkey has issued unilateral alerts on Aegean airspace, which Greece strongly disputes. Underlying these tensions is, as is well known, an unresolved dispute. The two countries do not agree on the limits of national airspaces, nor on the delimitation of their respective search and rescue regions. I believe that the E…

7 Oct

2026

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Attempts by the ruling party Georgian Dream to ban opposition parties in Georgia

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16 Sep

2026

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Urgent need for EU support to Ukraine against Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression (debate)

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Madam President, Madam High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, for almost five years now we have heard repeated condemnation of the Russian aggression and just solidarity with the innocent victims, with the entire Ukrainian people. Now, finally, those who have delegated have said enough to delegate to Trump. It was time! The European Union has for too long delegated every diplomatic solution to…

8 Jul

2026

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Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers (debate)

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17 Jun

2026

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Recommendation on promoting transnational governance on water in the interests of conflict prevention and peace (A10-0150/2026 - Leoluca Orlando) (vote)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Parliament is called upon to express an unprecedented – and for the first time – and current – position on water governance, with a view to ensuring peace. rule of law e human rights. As many as 150 supra-state water basins in the world are an opportunity for collaboration but also for conflicts in reference to water defined as a "public common good". Wars …

29 Apr

2026

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Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Lebanese Government is finally engaged in reforms and disarmament of Hezbollah. But the Lebanese people have been subjected to attacks by Israel for years: In recent weeks alone, the Israeli killing of more than 2,000 victims, with about 7,000 injured and more than 700,000 displaced. Lebanon is thus condemned once again to be a "non-state", a v…

28 Apr

2026

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I would like to draw your attention and concern at the limited follow-up given by the European Commission to the recommendations of the Committee of Inquiry into the Pegasus spyware and the Paragon case in Italy of undue espionage of journalists and civil society representatives. Commissioner, we must clarify, name names, denounce and sanction all …

11 Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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20 Jan

2026

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Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

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Madam President, Madam High Representative, the Trump government is systematically demolishing the principle of interdependence of states and international legality itself in the name of an exasperated imperialist sovereignism, founded on financial power and military power without any control. It is making chronic what Pope Francis called "world war in pieces." The Maduro regime must be challenged…

21 Oct

2025

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Criminal intimidation against investigative journalists in the EU: the attempted attack on Sigfrido Ranucci (debate)

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How can I disagree with what you have denounced? What we denounce in Europe we denounce also with reference to a country like the United States of America, with the difference that the United States of America, unfortunately or fortunately, are not subject to the possible intervention of the European Commission and, therefore, we ask that the European Commission intervene in the meantime with refe…

21 Oct

2025

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Criminal intimidation against investigative journalists in the EU: the attempted attack on Sigfrido Ranucci (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, maximum solidarity with the RAI journalist, Sigfrido Ranucci, and his family, who are today the target of a serious attack. With him we express solidarity to all journalists in Italy who suffer violence and intimidation for the sole fact of freely informing. The history of our country is marked by too many victims of this marginalization. In the 20…

21 Oct

2025

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Delayed justice and rule of law backsliding in Malta, eight years after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the square in Valletta and today in this House, memory is due for the killing of the courageous journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and we are with family members and many Maltese citizens here to demand strong truth and justice. The suspect, arrested in 2019, was released on bail at the beginning of 2025 and, as of today, the date of the trial is…

9 Sep

2025

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Situation in Colombia after the wave of recent terrorist attacks (debate)

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Mr President, Madam High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, in Colombia the peace process agreement launched in 2016 is in serious crisis due to the violent actions of armed groups that disagree with the peace process and that have produced a continuous armed confrontation for the control of the territories of the entire Colombia, with the involvement of drug trafficking and transnational organ…

17 Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 23 June the European Council of Foreign Affairs will finally have to sanction the now indisputable violation of Article 2 of the Association Agreement with Israel, which is responsible for genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the occupation of Palestinian territories, with 55 104 killed, including 16 854 children, 127 394 injured and maimed, …

16 Jun

2025

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State of play and follow-up two years after the PEGA recommendations and the illegal use of spyware (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, thank you for admitting that the Commission has done nothing after requests and complaints about the Pegasus case. Thank you for admitting that there is also nothing the Commission has done about obstacles and constraints on the part of the Italian government against the freedom of journalists, certified in the Brunner 2024 report on Rule of Law. R…

1 Apr

2025

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Dramatic situation in Gaza and the need for an immediate return to the full implementation of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, the genocide of Israel against the Palestinians has now become the heaviest example of a violation of international law in the world by a state with a government that has not been condemned by the European Union, and is improperly considered a privileged and democratic partner. Apartheid and genocide, Madam Vice-President, are incompatib…

11 Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on a new common approach on returns (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the proposed text does not pay sufficient and necessary attention to respect for the human rights of migrants, nor does it pay attention to the facts of reality. After the failed agreement between the United Kingdom and Rwanda, expulsion from Member States to third countries with which agreements are concluded that do not contain guarantees of h…

17 Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

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Mr President, Madam High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, the sudden and peaceful collapse of a decades-long dictatorial regime in Syria is once again the result of the intervention of foreign powers. The European Union must finally pay attention to civil society in Syria and to civil society in the diaspora to urge Ahmad al-Sharaa towards a democratic transition, guaranteeing the rights of w…

27 Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on 19 July you received a large majority with the extreme right voting against. Now an incomprehensible turn in coalition with the extreme right, with sovereignist groups, with liberticide and anti-peace processes, rights, environmental and social justice, in open contrast with the founding reasons of a democratic, anti-fascist and inclusive Europe. I will vo…

22 Oct

2024

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Situation in Tunisia (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Europe's contradictions: President Saied was elected with opponents in prison, in a social and political condition far from a democracy. President Saied has, in particular, fueled hatred against sub-Saharan Africans, calling them dangerous criminals. In July 2023, the President of the Commission and the Heads of Government of Italy and the Netherla…

22 Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Israel's military aggression against UN positions and soldiers engaged in the UNIFIL operation of peace keeping. It was not an error during a war operation but a deliberate violation of Resolution 1701, which imposes conditions of compliance on the contenders. It is clear that this condition must also be respected by Hezbollah militias. This violation by the …

8 Oct

2024

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The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, since 2004, under the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia has asked to be part of the European Union as a free, democratic Member State, certainly not as a colony of the European Union. This position has increased pressure to block democratic progress, freedom of the press and gender, reforms, including with the Russian military invasion of August 2008 an…

8 Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr High Representative, solidarity with the victims and condemnation of the massacre of 7 October require us to denounce the systematic violation by the Government of Israel of international law. Since 1967, the government of Israel has disregarded the rulings of the international community and the United Nations and in the past year has violated the sovereig…