What Ilaria spoke about.

16

Jun

2026

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An EU future for the Western Balkans (joint debate)

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May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, poverty in Europe is no longer a marginal emergency, it is becoming an ever deeper, more visible and more violent social fracture. In Italy almost 6 million people live in absolute poverty. But poverty is not a fatality, it is not an accident of history, it is the precise result of an economic and political model called capitalism: As long as governments cont…

29

Apr

2026

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Sudan’s abandoned humanitarian crisis: three years of conflict (debate)

Mr President, three long, horrific years of war in Sudan. 30 million people have been forced to flee their homes. More than 4 million crossed the borders. Over 33 million now depend on humanitarian assistance, and nearly half of the population faces acute hunger. It is an unacceptable, humanitarian catastrophe. Once again, the international community and the European Union appear unable or unwilli…

28

Apr

2026

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Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, fundamental rights are increasingly under attack in Europe. The classist and liberticidal agenda of the far right is evident. But in times of crisis and war, even the democratic forces end up accepting too many compromises to the bottom. For us, on the contrary, the rights of each and all are not negotiable: They are our red line, our barricade. To those who jus…

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Mar

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, food prices in Italy have increased by 25% over the last four years. Rents rose by 34% over the same period, while wages remained completely flat. This means that the purchasing power of citizens has fallen drastically, that the working classes are impoverishing themselves. Other than "the migrants here, the migrants there": the real security…

10

Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, housing is the basis of rights. Homeless everything else becomes fragile and precarious: safety, work, health, education, the very dignity of people. Yet today, in Europe and certainly in Italy, too many people do not have a home; Too many families struggle to pay rent or mortgage every month. Too many workers cannot afford to live in the cities where they wo…

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Mar

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for over 60 years Cuba has been living under a US embargo, a criminal embargo that has already imposed too much suffering on the population and prevented the free development of the island. But today we are witnessing a new and dangerous escalation: Since January 29, the Trump administration has been trying to permanently strangle this country with an unp…

9

Mar

2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Italy, despite higher and higher levels of education than men, women continue to participate less in the labour market, earn less and rarely hold managerial roles. On the other hand, they support much of the domestic and care work, invisible, unpaid and often not even recognized by those who benefit from it. Men, on the other hand, are entitle…

11

Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

Madam President, I want to use this minute to send from here, from the European Parliament, all my and our solidarity to the families and friends of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Renee and Alex paid with their lives for what is right: standing against ICE; standing against raids, abductions and deportations; supporting neighbours in their own communities. That is what anti-fascism looks like today. …

10

Feb

2026

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Urgent need to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan and to achieve a sustainable peace (debate)

Mr President, in Sudan, over 12 million people have been displaced. Epidemics and famine are spreading. Essential infrastructure has collapsed. Refugees find closed borders and degrading conditions. And yet, the international community, including the EU, is largely ignoring this war; a horrific war that is the toxic result of illegal gold trafficking, of a popular revolution crushed in blood, of a…

10

Feb

2026

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

Mr President, in recent days we have lived through deep, dark concern for the fate of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, for the present and the future of the Democratic Confederalist Revolution. We fear the worst. But as our comrades on the ground taught us, we never abandoned resistance. We never lost hope. Now, an agreement with the transitional government of Syria has been …

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Feb

2026

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Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

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Jan

2026

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, everyone can see what is happening in the United States: the great deportation is underway, the immigrant hunt turns into mass round-ups, the ICE behaves like the Gestapo. The self-styled patriots reveal themselves for what they really are: of vile white supremacists. In Europe the situation is no less serious, the right-wings obsessed with migrants are making i…

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Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Internet is an extraordinary tool, but it can also be really full of shit. With the advent of artificial intelligence, unprecedented and disturbing levels are being reached. Recently we have witnessed a serious and disgusting phenomenon: the images of thousands of people – mainly women, but also minors – virtually stripped through Grok, the artificial int…

17

Dec

2025

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, work on the anti-discrimination directive has been virtually at a standstill since 2008, 17 years ago. In 17 years, the European Union has failed to take a concrete step forward on a matter that should be obvious, elementary, shared. Or maybe not? Or, perhaps, is there really someone in this House and in national governments who thinks it is legitimate to discri…

17

Dec

2025

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we too, like The Left, are challenging the mandate for dossiers on so-called safe third countries and countries of origin. The reason is very simple, but of extreme gravity: these dossiers effectively sanction the destruction of the right of asylum in Europe. Our political union stems from the tragedy of the world wars and the millions of refugees and displac…

17

Dec

2025

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen... (the speaker was interrupted by protests without a microphone in the room)

16

Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (continuation of debate)

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Nov

2025

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for over two and a half years the people of Sudan have been engulfed in a heinous war between two military forces, both legitimised, financed and supported by foreign powers pursuing imperialist interests or seeking partners to control migration, such as the European Union. But to really understand what is happening you have to take a step back: Between 2018 and…

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Nov

2025

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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Madam President, everyday in Gaza and across Palestine, people are injured, killed, displaced. Land is stolen. Humanity denied. Life suppressed. How did we get to this point? And what is our responsibility? This is not just a matter of international politics. It is also a matter of political economy, of capital, greed and profit. Private corporations actively fuel and profit from the Zionist settl…

18

Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, freedom of assembly in Orban's Hungary? Only for those who are comfortable with the regime. On the one hand, Pride is banned, the freedom of expression of thousands of Hungarian and European citizens is censored, the LGBTQI+ community is criminalized with the absurd infamous accusation of being dangerous for children and, on the other hand, the neo-Nazi parad…

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May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, while academic freedom is openly under attack in Trump's United States, even in Europe we cannot sleep soundly. We have seen this in the repression of the sacrosanct protests against the genocide in Gaza and against the colonial occupation of Palestine: truncheoned students and researchers, cancelled lectures and unfounded and spurious accusations of anti-Sem…

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Apr

2025

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Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Hungary is a European country held hostage by an authoritarian and corrupt regime. Ladies and gentlemen, let us look at the most recent events. How does a liberticidal government work in the age of artificial intelligence? Viktor Orbán shows us the way: First, he bans Pride, branding the LGBTQI+ community as ‘dangerous for children’ – perhaps suggested by his…

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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, the concept of a human smuggler has been weaponised to justify increasingly repressive migration policies. The EU criminalises smugglers, even those who act without profit. Migrants themselves, such as boat drivers, as well as those offering humanitarian or solidarity-based support. But there is an undeniable truth we must face: as long as safe and legal migration routes are unava…