What Cecilia spoke about.

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I do not agree with almost anything the Commission is doing to prepare us for the great challenges ahead. I, in my bag of resilience, have put international humanitarian law, which is under attack every day and is torn apart, not only by Putin. Let me quote another case: The Netanyahu government. In my purse are the very important international …

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to come back for a moment to Mr Vannacci's speech. In addition to sharing what my colleague stressed, I would also like to point out that the aggressive tones she has used towards Commissioner Lahbib, as well as the final part of her speech in which she invites us to learn to run because it could serve, are, I believe, from all those who have ears to…

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Mar

2025

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The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in Syria (debate)

Madam President, dear Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in December this House welcomed the end of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Unfortunately, already in the following days, many politicians took the opportunity to ask for the repatriation of Syrian refugees, ignoring the difficulties of the transition. The country remains unstable: rights are not guaranteed, as also demonstrated by the summar…

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Mar

2025

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

Yes, in my experience, but in reality also in the experience of academics who have been putting data together for thirty years, we know that the only way to avoid irregular migration, to avoid having people without valid documents, in this country, the only way is to open safe and legal access channels. In the experience of those who study the subject are the closed borders that generate illegal m…

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Mar

2025

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

Madam President, dear Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this regulation contains dangerous things. There is talk of repatriating people to third countries that, very generally, must respect rights, but without any specific requirement, such as being signatories to international human rights conventions. What will happen to people when they are in the third country? No one knows. Moreover, there …

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Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, over the last 30 years, governments have invested enormous resources in militarising borders, trying to stop migratory flows and irregular immigration. Did it work? No. Why? Because all the data tells us that closing borders is not the solution, it is part of the problem. Because every time you close a legal route, illegal ones open up and traff…

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Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

I just wanted to ask Mr Mantovani if he knows that he has just carried out a defamation, because there have been several requests to bring to judgment non-governmental organisations that carry out rescue operations at sea. In the Mediterranean there has never even been a trial, all archived because the fact does not exist: Non-governmental organisations are not sea taxis, they are not in league wi…

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2025

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Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the midst of the very serious political crisis that is sweeping the country following the contested elections, there is the Venezuelan people, who are clamoring for respect, peace and social justice. A people that has been facing for years a deep socio-economic crisis that has seriously jeopardized the provision of public services and respect for civil rights…

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Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, women's rights and real gender equality are essential to achieving many of the goals we have – both at European and UN level – such as those on peace, climate change and economic prosperity. The data tells us: Gender equality would bring between 6 and 11 million new jobs by 2050, with an increase in gross domestic product per capita of up to 10%. E…

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Dec

2024

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Promoting social dialogue and collective bargaining and the right to strike in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, last week in Italy the Minister for Transport, Matteo Salvini, tried once again to end the duration of a strike. This is not the first time: He had tried to shorten strikes in May 2023, then in November, then again in May 2024, in view of the Formula 1 weekend in Monza, because according to the minister, obviously, we cannot do without Formula 1, b…

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Dec

2024

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

Mr President, Madam High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, we do not yet know what will happen in Syria after the fall of the bloody Assad, but we already know the extent of the crisis that was underway. A devastated country that needs to be rebuilt. 16 million people – two thirds of whom are children – in need of humanitarian assistance. A mosaic of ethnic and religious minorities demanding a…

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Nov

2024

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Stepping up the fight against and the prevention of the recruitment of minors for criminal acts (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, thinking about combating youth crime with security methods is a failed approach. Just look at what's happening in my country: since the Italian government, approving the Caivano decree, decided to use an iron fist against minors, the Italian juvenile penal institutions have become overcrowded and this obviously to the detriment of training and…

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Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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Nov

2024

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Continued escalation in the Middle East: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA’s essential role in the region, the need to release all hostages and the recent ICC arrest warrants (debate)

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Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about the centres in Albania inaugurated by the Meloni government, as something that Europe could look at with interest, as a model for our future actions. Last week, the first 16 asylum-seeking migrants were taken to the centre. Here are the results: two were minors, two were vulnerable, should never…

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Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Vice-President, today we are talking about the Union's external borders. I would like to talk about that liquid frontier which is the Mediterranean Sea. At least 30,000 people have died in the Mediterranean in the last decade. Do you know how many? They are all employees of the European Parliament, plus all our partners, plus all our children. There's a lot o…

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Oct

2024

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Situation in Sudan (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there have been two coups in Sudan over the last five years. The clash between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitaries of the rapid support forces has now become a bloody conflict that does not spare the defenseless civilian population. This is also confirmed by the latest report of the mission established by the UN Human Rights Council. Both sides are …

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Oct

2024

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, over the past year, Netanyahu's government has committed war crimes on a large scale, effectively causing a humanitarian catastrophe. To all my colleagues who say, 'Oh, but Hamas started,' I would like to say that it is not appropriate to talk so much about who started because there were 75 years of occupation before October 7. Then we are faced with a humani…

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Oct

2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, dear Commissioner, the reintroduction of controls at the Union's internal borders regularly returns to public debate, used and flaunted by the government in office to give the impression of having everything under control or to pretend that citizens can be protected simply by closing borders. It should be a temporary and exceptional measure. However, in the…

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Sep

2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, last June a 31-year-old farm worker died in an accident at work while working in the countryside of the Agro Pontino. An agricultural machine ripped off his arm and broke his legs. What did your employer do? He didn't call for help, he didn't take him to the hospital. He loaded it into a van, abandoned it in front of his house, with his severed …

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Sep

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I want to protect the Israeli population, like everyone else, I think, here and, in order to protect the Israeli population, we must stop Netanyahu's government. Because Netanyahu's government is not just slaughtering the Palestinian population: He is massacring his country's democracy and putting his country out of the democratic civil forum, out of the way …

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Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, my first speech in plenary is on a subject that I care a lot about, because all my life I have been a humanitarian worker, working also in war zones and in areas affected by terrorism. For the last few years I have been working in rescue at sea. I find it frankly unacceptable that we continue to associate the entire population of migrants, refug…