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27

Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister, this Budapest declaration is an important first step on the road to European competitiveness, especially in comparison with the economic giants such as the United States and China. In this context, agriculture faces a threefold challenge. The first one: regaining economic competitiveness, which has been declining for more than two decades. The second: …

23

Oct

2024

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The important role of cities and regions in the EU – for a green, social and prosperous local development (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the historian Jacques Le Goff wrote that European identity was born in the Middle Ages and it was in the Middle Ages that the first municipalities were born. It is in the Middle Ages that cities have their roots: our cities, where we find monuments, churches, universities, where the languages that make up Europe's cultural heritage of identity are …

22

Oct

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners – Situation of animal health in Europe: how to prevent and prepare for future sanitary crises in agriculture

A brief reply: With regard to vaccination, Commissioner, is the Commission in a position to envisage a time limit within which the result of a real vaccine can be achieved? Because our breeders are extremely concerned and need a clear perspective from this point of view.…

22

Oct

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners – Situation of animal health in Europe: how to prevent and prepare for future sanitary crises in agriculture

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I refer to what has just been said about African swine fever, which is alarming many European countries, including my own, Italy. There are currently 27 active outbreaks in several Italian farms: 19 in Lombardy, seven in Piedmont, one in Emilia Romagna. But the situation is constantly changing. More than 120,000 pigs have been slaughtered in an …

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have seen a real housing emergency in Europe: 19 million people live in inadequate housing; rents increased by 41.5% in ten years, as did house prices, which doubled in five countries. In Italy, 2.5 million households spend 40% of their income on housing. And the Italian government has canceled the fund for public construction and that for the r…

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Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the launch of the strategic dialogue after the farmers' protests was undoubtedly useful and positive, especially since a synthesis has been created between the two souls of the agricultural and agri-food sector, the environmental and the economic. It is a working method that involved the main stakeholders and indicated some important priorities for…