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Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Russia is not winning the war in Ukraine, on the contrary, thanks to its moral resilience, Kiev has been able to transform its inferiority into a structural capacity for innovation. For Russia it had to be a demonstration of power. Instead, it is a carnage from which the erosion of prestige on which Putin's power rests derives. It is also the failure of those…

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2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this debate comes at a crucial time, with the package automotive discussed in the various committees responsible. And there is no doubt that the choices that will be made in the coming months will be decisive for the sector, called to decarbonize, safeguarding competitiveness and jobs. I also think of the components, for a good part not reproduc…

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2026

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Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2025 Iran executed more than 2 000 people, twice as many as the year before. There have been no similar numbers in the world for 45 years. They are not statistics. They are men, women, minors sent to the gallows for exercising their freedom of thought and speech, citizens hanged or stoned on trumped-up charges of complicity with the United States or Israel. T…

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2026

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Escalating trafficking and exploitation by criminal groups in Haiti

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Feb

2026

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Building a stronger European defence in light of an increasingly volatile international environment (debate)

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Dec

2025

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Grids package and tackling raising energy prices through robust infrastructure (debate)

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2025

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

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Nov

2025

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Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, talking about Sudan today means facing one of the most serious humanitarian crises of our time. In recent weeks in El Fasher and Bara we have seen the horror: After months of siege, in these cities civilians were massacred, children killed by hunger and weapons. The medical and humanitarian emergency now affects more than 25 million people, and …

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2025

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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the rapid geopolitical changes and ongoing conflicts, since Russia's aggression against Ukraine, remind us of the fragility of peace and require the Union to adopt a strategy to defend its security. However, this strategy cannot only translate into increases in national spending; If we want to defend Europe effectively, we must encourage greater…

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2025

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Humanitarian and security situation in Haiti, in particular the rising power of criminal gangs and the recent massacre in Cabaret

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there are humanitarian tragedies of which little or no mention is made. One of them is the ongoing tragedy in Haiti. A few weeks ago, in Cabaret, criminal gangs killed forty people, including children and entire families. Sixteen thousand people have been killed since 2022. The violence of gangs, with murders, kidnappings and rapes, is fueled by the collapse …

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2025

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Need for the EU to scale up clean technologies (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, with the Net-Zero Industry Act and with the Clean Industrial Deal The European Union has put in place a regulatory framework to strengthen its competitiveness in the field of decarbonisation technologies. The Union has taken the right path, but is it moving at the right speed and with the right resources? The restrictions on the export of rare eart…

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May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in recent months the Trump administration has attacked the autonomy of the US education and university system, reduced funding for universities and restricted academic freedom. These choices weaken the U.S.'s attractiveness to global researchers and talent. The journal Nature found that U.S. scientists' overseas job applications grew 32 percent …

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2025

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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in order to regain ground in the global technological race, Europe needs critical mass in the dimension of market and business investment, while fragmentation and small scale prevail today. I am talking about public investment and above all private investment from European savings, which must be geared towards innovation and more promising sectors, beyond techno…

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2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, energy-intensive industries are fundamental to the autonomy and competitiveness of the European Union. They provide millions of jobs and are strategic for decarbonisation. These industries – steel, chemicals, cement, glass, ceramics, wood, paper, the heart of European manufacturing – are in great difficulty today. Energy plays a decisive role in…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Clean Industrial Deal highlights well how the decarbonisation of European industry must reconcile sustainability, competitiveness and strategic autonomy. But we would have expected more ambition, particularly on what can be done in the short term: First of all, I am talking about the price of energy. In order to ensure that long-term contracts …

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Feb

2025

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

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, one of Europe's technological delays is that of satellite communication infrastructure. If all goes well, the 290 satellites of the IRIS constellation2 They will be available in 2030. Meanwhile, the more than 6 000 Starlink satellites already in orbit and a further 30 000 under authorisation are a fact. The competitive gap is macroscopic and needs …

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Feb

2025

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Escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the horrors and violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo continue in all their brutality and it is the entire population that pays the highest toll in terms of human lives and suffering. To date, more than 700 000 people have been displaced. It is also our responsibility to counter the predatory aims of neighbouring countries. Rwanda must…

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Jan

2025

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Humanitarian crisis in Sudan (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, an unprecedented humanitarian emergency is taking place in Sudan. In the country everything has been destroyed, from schools to hospitals, and diseases that we thought eradicated, such as cholera, added to a deep famine, claim as many victims as war. The few humanitarian organizations present operate under extreme conditions. Operators in Cesvi, MS…

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Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, rising energy costs, inflation and the shrinking purchasing power of millions of European households have led to a sharp increase in energy poverty. We expect the Commission to take this issue as a priority, while also making the most of civil society initiatives. The Energy Bank, for example, is an organization non-profit Italian born in 2016 on the initiati…

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Nov

2024

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Georgia's worsening democratic crisis following the recent parliamentary elections and alleged electoral fraud (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the images of thousands of Georgian citizens taking to the streets with European flags to protest against the results of the last elections confirm the population's attachment to the path of European integration. Unfortunately, on 26 October voters did not have the opportunity to express themselves without conditioning and there were many irregularities reported…

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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, Commissioner, the crisis that the European steel industry is going through calls for our attention. The problems are clear: the first is unfair competition resulting from Chinese overproduction, which is largely subsidised. To counter this, there is an urgent need to strengthen our trade defence instruments, curbing all evasive practices. The price of energy …

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Oct

2024

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Situation in Tunisia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have taken note of the outcome of the elections in Tunisia, aware of the highly compromised political context in which they took place. We also know about the practices of discrimination against migrants and intimidation of members of civil society. Faced with violations of the rule of law and human rights, the European Union cannot, of course, be silent. How…

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Oct

2024

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Empowering the Single Market to deliver a sustainable future and prosperity for all EU citizens (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you Enrico, your report deals concretely with the problem of Europe's decline in comparison with the great global powers. Not only: obliges the European Union to come to terms with the distance that, in the absence of courageous and urgent choices, separates our ambitions from reality. The main weakness of the European Union is its fragmentation. This i…

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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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the difficulties of theautomotive The European Union is in front of our eyes and we have a duty to deal with it, given the importance of this sector for employment and for European GDP. However, those who propose to slow down the transition are wrong. green or to change the target 2035: This is not what companies are asking us, which have invest…

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2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this is my first speech in this House and I am happy to spend it to give a voice, together with the colleagues who have spoken, to the millions of Afghan women and girls whom the Taliban Islamist regime is trying to erase, erase from social, cultural and political life through inhuman laws, which deprive them of their right to exist and relegate them to the role…