What Stefano spoke about.

21 May

2025

IT Speech

The Hungarian government's drift to Russia-style repression: legislative threats to freedom of expression and democratic participation (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Hungary democracy belongs to the people, as it should be in all European countries. Many scandals have touched these buildings, as you all know, starting from Qatar Gate, where it has been shown that organizations or, sometimes, even sovereign states, have undermined our democracy: It is there for all to see and investigations are underway. In Hungary, pub…

8 May

2025

IT Speech

Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, while there is too much talk here in Parliament about tariffs, there is a lot of talk about import taxes, there is a lot of talk about import taxes. Green Deal, we are talking about so many agents outside the European market, we forget what we are and what we must be. Unfortunately, the data is very clear. As the rest of the world grows, Europe is …

7 May

2025

IT Speech

High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately, we are seeing more and more prices for products that end up from the field to the table, to our consumers, increasing in recent years, with significant damage to all those who produce: farmers. This is because the choices made by the Green Deal by the European Commission in the previous mandate caused a steady increase in prices. While there is…

31 Mar

2025

IT Speech

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

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I was undecided whether to speak in today's debate, because it seems to me largely a farce for what is happening. There would be talk of democratic pluralism and anti-corruption policies in Europe. And yet, a few weeks ago, the elections in Romania were cancelled: one candidate was excluded from the race, when he was first among all the polls. Does this democ…

12 Mar

2025

IT Speech

100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, last July we voted against the reappointment of Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission because we did not share a large part of the proposals that were in continuity with the previous mandate. The idea of moving towards a continuous decarbonization that, unfortunately, destroyed our production system. A plan like the one on the…

11 Mar

2025

IT Speech

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

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the line of the Italian Government, the Meloni Government, on illegal immigration has finally become the line of the whole of Europe. Finally, there is talk of preventing departures at origin, concluding bilateral agreements with the countries of the South of the Mediterranean to prevent those who do not have the right to asylum in Europe from leaving. And fo…

12 Feb

2025

IT Speech

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we have to talk about a debate of the utmost importance: the dangerous collaboration that would exist between the conservatives and the so-called extreme right. Now, we are certainly not of the extreme right, but surely those who proposed this debate have shown extreme stupidity. Why do I say that? Because while we are trying to change Europe, you continue…

10 Feb

2025

IT Speech

Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have a point of order pursuant to Rule 202 of our Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament. In fact, today is February 10 and in Italy, by law 92 of 2004, we celebrate the Day of Remembrance, which protects the honor of the martyrs of the foibe and the exiles of Istria, Rijeka and Dalmatia, sentenced to death and exiled for the fault of the communist b…

21 Jan

2025

IT Speech

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

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I read a lot of hate in this House today. I understand that you had a bad Blue Monday, because many came to see the inauguration of Donald Trump and to see Giorgia Meloni as the only European leader present at that inauguration. But it cannot work that if you win it is a triumph of democracy, if the right wins the elections must be annulled. And that is why w…

20 Jan

2025

IT Speech

Powering Europe’s future - advancing the fusion industry for energy independence and innovation (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is far from achieving what we have called energy independence, which it particularly needs. We are now seeing - recently in what have been the conflicts at Europe's doorstep - how fundamental it is for the whole of Europe and for all member countries to have a form of independence, what we have called energy sovereignty. Some countries, such as Italy, …

17 Dec

2024

IT Speech

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

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for years we have heard of Russian trolls, Chinese hackers, dark saboteurs of the dark web. But today we find out that there are trolls even from the European Commission. According to the European Supervisor, in fact, the previous Commission targeted and promoted awareness campaigns for left-wing and progressive users, excluding Viktor Orbán, Giorgia Meloni a…

26 Nov

2024

IT Speech

Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

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25 Nov

2024

IT Speech

The outcome of the G20 Leaders' Summit (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the presidency of the G20 in Rio de Janeiro has addressed issues dear to Italy and also to us conservatives, in respect of which we have very clear solutions for our continent. These include, of course, the fight against hunger and poverty, the reform of global governance, the energy and ecological transition. Great work is being done by the Italian Governmen…

23 Oct

2024

IT Speech

U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, just over two years have passed since the Meloni government took office in Italy and the results with regard to productivity and competitiveness of our country are clearly being seen. We no longer have a state that is the enemy of companies, of those who want to produce work but the results tell us that jobs increase, we will have a fairer tax and more oppo…

9 Oct

2024

IT Speech

2024 Annual Rule of law report (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a few weeks ago the European Commission published the report on the rule of law in all EU countries, including of course Italy. The Commission welcomed the justice reform being carried out in our country, the digitalisation of prosecutors' offices and the length of trials, which is gradually improving, and also applauded the national anti-corruption plan. But fo…

8 Oct

2024

IT Speech

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is neither necessary nor sufficient to look at the merciless data of the European automotive sector, which is seeing a decrease in productivity and significant economic damage to a sector that employs some 13 million workers on our continent. Workers of whom someone is probably not interested and I turn to the left of this House. The damage of the implementat…

19 Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

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Mr Corrado, the question we want to ask is this: Why has Emilia Romagna – the land you represent and in respect of which former President Stefano Bonaccini has also just intervened – not spent all the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) that would have been allocated by the Commission from 2014 to 2020 on climate change adaptation and the reduction of hydrogeological instability? The territ…

18 Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen: I, like my colleagues, of course express my utmost solidarity with the countries affected and the relatives of the victims. Even my land, Emilia Romagna, just over a year ago was hit by a very serious flood, perhaps, unfortunately, more serious than those we see today. And we must say that a large part of what happened is due, unfortunately, to the lack of preve…

17 Sep

2024

IT Speech

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

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Digital Services Act, also known as the Digital Services Act, was intended to limit the abuses of large companies to the detriment of consumers, to the detriment of the weakest and to the detriment of users of web platforms. But too often, unfortunately, we have noticed how, with the excuse of fighting disinformation, the spread of hate and the spread o…

19 Jul

2024

EN Speech

Statement by the President

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Madam President, dear colleagues, I will speak in Italian, my mother tongue, and also, I think, the right language to do this speech. Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, il 19 luglio 1992 ha trovato la morte Paolo Borsellino, assieme alla sua scorta. La vogliamo ringraziare, signora Presidente, come gruppo di Fratelli d'Italia-ECR, per aver citato, nel suo discorso di insediamento, quello che …