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Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is born in coal and steel: a pact. An energy pact and a building pact, we were in the aftermath of the Second World War and today the themes are the same. We deal with and must find answers for energy, at too high a cost for the entire production sector, and we must defend the mother of materials for industrial construction, which is steel. We have two…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a film that I love very much. Fight Club. At some point they enter the cockpit of the plane and replace the cards. The cards were all reassuring: There was a plane crash but smiling and calm faces came out gracefully. Here, it seems to me that this is happening here: In other words, you, Commissioner – with all due respect – used reassuring tones, ta…

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Apr

2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a prayer from an association of former military personnel that says: Save us, armed as we are with faith and love. Europe has lost faith and confused love, and today it has a rather obvious security problem. We need to get out of this hypocrisy and address this issue clearly; the Internal Security Strategy is a key need. Not just weapons, of course! But…

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Mar

2025

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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for four generations, this company had transformed its production because the market demanded it; in the last season, because European laws require it and the market does not follow them. This is what the Gnutti company tells us in the visit that the ITRE committee made to Italy. This motion was born - and the rapporteur knows it - to respond to the theme ofa…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, clean, we are already clean, Commissioner: 6% emissions, first in the world for circular economy – I am talking, of course, about Europe. We have the industries that have made the greatest investments in respect for the environment. Perhaps from clean We should move on to Real Industrial Act o Deal or what we want to do, because within this act there are 40 m…

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Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if this is the time for strong choices, Commissioner, as you said, because the context has completely changed and today we must discuss some issues that we thought were left to rest: We must defend our civilization, our economy and our borders in a context of permanent hybrid conflict. Alongside some that we have identified as problems, however, there are oth…

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Feb

2025

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Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we have a theme, it is about needs and time. The needs are obvious, it is a need for security now, immediate. And the thing about time is that we don't have time. IRIS2 It remains a very important programme and must be supported under all conditions, but it is not ready. It will be ready in 2030, according to forecasts, but we know that forecasts o…

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Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Commissioner, for your presence. Theory and ideology are enemies of competitiveness, and the numbers speak for themselves. The numbers tell us that reality is another. In Europe steel has had a -30% since 2008, aluminium has had a -22% in the last two years. Energy: We were under the illusion that we could look at the sun, have the wind and all this w…

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Feb

2025

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Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, next week we will vote on the European Parliament's position on the European Social Fund Plus. I am very concerned, as shadow rapporteur, about what is happening, because it is very far from the debate in this House. This House has recognised the relationship between school and work, transition and vocational training with its central role. I have governed fo…

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Jan

2025

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Uniting Europe against actors hostile to the EU: time to strengthen our security and defence (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, strengthening our defence and security necessarily involves strengthening our defence and security industry and making a conscious, cultural and political choice. For years it was taboo to talk about investment in defense, it was unthinkable for any kind of speech misaligned with the Green Deal. Today, due to the geopolitical situation, the paradigm has chang…

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Ribera, ladies and gentlemen, with you we risk moving from ideology to fantasy. Europe is one of the most prosperous regions because it is manufacturing, because it produces, because it works. Our capacity rests on a solid foundation in strategic sectors such as steel, aluminium, plastics and chemistry. We have created and grown the car, transport, shipbuilding and aeron…

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Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thanks to Hungarian pragmatism, we welcome the New European Competitiveness Deal. Steel, Supply Chainautomotive, fashion system, the entire manufacturing are at risk of destruction because of the rules that Europe, such as the Green Deal, he wrote badly. Let's stop and look at the numbers. The major auto production groups are reducing or closing, the maison The …

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Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Latins used to say:Si vis pacem, para bellum": If we want to live peacefully and safely, we must prepare ourselves for every eventuality. You, Mr President, have made this clear in your speech and also in your report; This was clearly stated by Commissioner Kubilius, who agreed with the Italian government's request to exclude military spending from the St…

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Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe was born with the agreement on steel - and it is the past - and it risks dying with its steel laws of the present, if we do not change course. The European steel industry is strategic for our manufacturing autonomy and crucial for geopolitical balances. So why are European policy choices so self-destructive? And in whose favor? Certainly in favor of Ch…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the car was born in Europe. Progress has been made on the mobility of citizens. Well-being was measured by car ownership. Europe is destroying one of the most refined, evolved, richest sectors of our industry, not because of market or structural problems, but because of a wrong choice of European policy, such as forced transformation into electricity. It is n…

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Oct

2024

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One year after the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a year ago we were attacked. The West of values, respect and freedom was subjected to unprecedented violence. We have been attacked, in the cradle of our culture: Israel. Children raped and kidnapped, elderly people beaten, men and women barbarously killed by the hatred of Hamas Islamic terrorism. Those images, deliberately recorded by Hamas, which today give…