What Cecilia spoke about.

8 Jul

2026

IT Speech

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 18-19 June 2026 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the conclusions of the European Council devote space to Palestine, while in this House any proposal for a debate or resolution on this subject is systematically blocked by the right and the centre-right ‑. The debate on Dr Abu Safiya, a Palestinian pediatrician imprisoned for 18 months without trial, who is risking his life, was also rejected this month. In J…

7 Jul

2026

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The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equality (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 1974 was a year of unprecedented violence for the people of Cyprus. The Turkish invasion made the island a scene of massacres and horrors against the civilian population, with unprecedented ferocity. Rape was used on a large scale as an instrument of war and the cost was borne by the women and girls of the island. Turkish forces systematically carried out gan…

20 May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the war to come is not the first, wrote Bertolt Brecht in 1939, before there were other wars. At the end of the last one there were winners and losers. Among the vanquished, the poor people were hungry, among the victors the poor people were hungry, too. It's still like that, it's always like that. The international scenario of war and crisis is…

19 May

2026

IT Speech

Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the multilateral system, international law is stronger than arms. Human rights are stronger than profit. The rule of law is stronger than autocracies. This is Europe's position, at least on paper. In the report we will vote on tomorrow, Parliament reiterates its strong condemnation of the Taliban, a regime that imposes gender apartheid: In Afgha…

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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28 Apr

2026

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

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Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, ladies and gentlemen, I was in the Italian prison in Busto Arsizio, where the overcrowding rate is over 200%. It's a hell, with three-story bunk beds, with inmates sleeping a palm from the ceiling, with light cables exposed everywhere. There the three square meters of space per prisoner are evidently a mirage, as in too many Italian prisons. Dignity dies in the …

27 Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, one in three women in the European Union has suffered violence – at home, at work, in public. One in five women has been raped. We must do much more to stop this epidemic, starting with sexual and affective education in schools. You have to stop telling women how to dress: We must begin to teach men that they should not be raped. And do you know th…

27 Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, I wanted to ask you, since you are talking about explicit dissent, I am not sure that you have understood the point of this initiative. Legislation must be based on consensus, because we know from the experience of hundreds of thousands of women, as well as from the studies of the scientific community, that the reactions of the brain may not be to answer "No, do not rape me"; They ma…

11 Mar

2026

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Immunity of International Criminal Court officials and the activation of the EU Blocking Statute to strengthen EU strategic autonomy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear Commission, when the International Criminal Court is attacked, Europe is attacked, our values are in the crosshairs: human dignity, international humanitarian law, peace, the independence of the judiciary. The Court brings justice to victims of atrocities and condemns war criminals. That's why she gets hit. Those working on the Ukraine case h…

11 Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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We know that many people are fleeing this attack these days, and we know that countries in the region are already hosting millions of refugees. In Lebanon, for example, Syrian refugees are again fleeing Lebanon and trying to return to Syria after attacks by Israeli forces in the south of the country. I am very worried about the situation. Since you care a lot about the rights of migrants and refug…

10 Feb

2026

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

IT Speech

One round of political group speakers for the Ciriani and Düpont reports

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22 Jan

2026

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A new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the new action plan is not just an opportunity to relaunch the European Pillar of Social Rights. It is also an opportunity to show that, amid fear and uncertainty, the European Union still cares about the social security of citizens. Let's look at the results of the last Eurobarometer. He asks where the money from the European budget should go a…

21 Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, disinformation always flies when we talk about immigration in this House. ‘There is uncontrolled migration’: false. 97% of the world's population lives in the country where they were born, and the numbers have been that way since we collected them. And Frontex also tells us that arrivals and asylum requests are decreasing. "They want to invade Europe": It's very…

17 Dec

2025

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The deepening democratic crisis in Georgia (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, ladies and gentlemen, in this House we are discussing the disturbing anti-democratic drift that is taking place in Georgia. Meanwhile, upstairs, the Commission, Council and Parliament are agreeing to include Georgia on the European list of safe countries of origin. This year's government crackdown in Georgia was brutal: arbitrary detentions, torture of demonstra…

17 Dec

2025

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Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept (vote)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am afraid, however, that we have a problem: Either we are very confused or we are very hypocritical. Yesterday we awarded the Sakharov Prize to Mzia Amaglobeli, a Georgian journalist, two weeks ago we voted on a resolution condemning the human rights situation in Tunisia, two months ago on repression in Serbia and the deterioration of democracy in Turkey. T…

16 Dec

2025

IT Speech

Recent developments in Palestine and Lebanon (debate)

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26 Nov

2025

IT Speech

Rule of law and human rights situation in Tunisia, particularly the case of Sonia Dahmani

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9 Sep

2025

IT Question

Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

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I wanted to go back to the word genocide. The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Crimes is the legal basis on which we observe, read and compare what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank and conclude, like all the organizations that mentioned my colleague Botenga, that a crime is taking place. They're not Facebook pages, it's a very, very serious thing: All the acts are…

8 Jul

2025

IT Speech

Situation in the Middle East (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I too wanted to make a couple of clarifications. One for my fellow right-wing MEPs, who used to say they were very concerned about Iran's nuclear power: I am, too, but I wanted to say that there is a country, in the Middle East, that has a secret nuclear program, where inspectors cannot enter, a country that has not signed or ratified the nuclear non-prolifer…

7 Jul

2025

EN Speech

Resumption of the sitting

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Madam President, I would like to raise a point of order on a possible breach of Article 7, Annex 1 of the Rules of Procedure. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation apparently was welcomed in the European Parliament on 2 July and met with several MEPs, including the chair for the Delegation for relations with Israel, yet, to date, GHF is not listed in the transparency register, so such meetings are in d…

18 Jun

2025

IT Speech

Stopping the genocide in Gaza: time for EU sanctions (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear Commissioner, the Government of Israel has attacked Iran, another violation of international law, and continues to commit acts of genocide in Gaza. In the Strip I have a brother, Gennaro Giudetti, a UN humanitarian worker. We talk almost every day. That's what he told me last night. One: the management of aid through the Gaza Foundation It is inhumane. T…

21 May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have just returned from the Rafah crossing, where we heard the sound of bombs every two minutes: There are 80,000 square meters of humanitarian aid that Israel has been blocking since March 2, while people are literally starving to death in Gaza. The day before yesterday very few trucks entered, a drop in the ocean, and even these, this morning, had not bee…

8 May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if Europe deals only with the internal problems of individual countries, the causes of conflicts, militarism and wars will remain. This is what Altiero Spinelli and the other founders of the European Federalist Movement wrote at the height of the Second World War, which ended 80 years ago. A sad prophecy. Today the boys and girls of Europe study the horrors of t…