Speeches

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 not sustainable. It is certainly not achievable in the theorized times. There is no infrastructure of the network, there is not enough finance to realize it, there is no demand, because this car is too expensive and not usable easily, with full car parks and blocked market. It does not pollute less. No one knows how to dispose of batteries that come almost entirely from China and no one controls the transport and emissions of these goods. No one talks about the necessary raw materials, their highly polluting processing. Europe is scourged, but we are responsible for less than 10% of global emissions. It is unthinkable today, with the tools at our disposal, to achieve the intended objectives of banning endothermic engines in 2035. Engines that, thanks to research and development, have drastically reduced emissions, contributing to the goal of sustainability. We need to think about one right away. European Automotive Act that it revises these objectives and that it does not consider electric as the only way, but pushes towards technological neutrality, fuels such as biofuels and hydrogen, and defends the complex value chain of suppliers. This is President von der Leyen's Competitiveness Legislature, so it means reversing the paradigm. Let's re-open the file and verify the impact. If the medicine kills the patient, the prescription was obviously wrong, but the good doctor repents, changes the prescription, changes the medicine, on pain of the patient's death.

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 us shivers of indignation, are used as propaganda, as a continuous incitement to hatred, as a victory. Hamas and Islamic terrorism propagate hatred and violence. In wanting and pursuing the destruction of Israel, they want to destroy those reference values that make Israel part of and border on Europe. We are Israel and we will stand by its side in its defense and for the destruction of Islamic terrorism. But let's look inside: There are too many supporters, hidden or not, of this terrorism that also lurks within the European institutions when they finance NGOs that disguise, behind humanitarian aid, the financing of weapons for terrorists. Never again! We will watch over the protection of children on all sides, Commissioner, but we will always stand by Israel because its life is ours.