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2026

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Provision of digital euro services by payment services providers incorporated in Member States whose currency is not the euro and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1230 of the European Parliament and the Council (A10-0183/2026 - Fernando Navarrete Rojas) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if you pay in cash today, you can continue to pay in cash tomorrow, just as you do today. But, if you choose to pay electronically – digitally – the digital euro will give you the European, public and independent possibility for your data to remain in Europe and to pay in Europe, rather than leaving millions of data and millions of euros in fees to pass overs…

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2026

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Time for European economic independence (debate)

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2026

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The attack against citizens in Modena: protecting public spaces and preventing violence in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Five Star Movement expresses its closeness to the community of Modena, affected by a very serious act, which has shocked the country. In the moment of fear, Modena has not seen Italians against foreigners, it has seen people save other people, it has seen citizens different in origin, history and provenance risk their own lives to protect that of others. …

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2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a final moment in a process that has been very demanding, in which the spirit of compromise has been necessary, as well as rigour in control. Democratic legitimacy requires respect for the rules and, as we know very well, we representatives of the institutions are called not only to respect the formal rules and norms but we must adapt to the highest mor…

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2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, budgetary discharge is not just a technical procedure: It is a fundamental political act. This is the moment when this Parliament, elected by the citizens of Europe, exercises its function of democratic control, verifying that public money is spent in a legitimate, efficient and consistent way with the values we have given ourselves. It is an act of democratic l…

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2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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2026

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European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Ukraine, Venezuela, Iran, Greenland and perhaps tomorrow Mexico, Norway, Canada and who knows, France, Spain. All these Trump threats, direct and indirect, are a humiliation for Europe and are upsetting the geopolitical balance, our old certainties. NATO, the UN and even the European Union are in an identity crisis and risk being swept away by oligarchies more p…

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Dec

2025

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Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

Thank you very much, colleague, for your question. Actually, I think that the European Union as such, as a Union, should invest in European defence. We are not actually investing in European defence. We are allowing Member States to invest each other in their own defence. For instance, a big state like Germany, which has huge fiscal room to invest even more, one thousand billion dollars, actually …

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Dec

2025

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Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

Are you happier now that Mr Trump is actually speaking with Mr Putin instead of us? Are you happy with that? So, I am actually not happier that Trump is speaking alone now with Putin. That is why I wanted a different strategy from Europe from the very beginning. Following the only way of war is not reaching the peace, my dear.…

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Dec

2025

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Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

As I said, I condemn in all the means the aggression of Russia against Ukraine. I think that the way to reach peace is not the one that Europe is following, because actually we are allowing Member States to increase defence expenditure asymmetrically. We are even, in derogation of the stability pact, allowing big Member States to increase defence. And this is even dangerous for Member States which…

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Dec

2025

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Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

This is a question?

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Dec

2025

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Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, politics is not the art of preparing for war, it is the art of preventing it. And Europe exists because it has learned on its own skin that strength, without dialogue, only leads to ruin. Today someone tells us that we must get used to the idea of conflict, that our children will have to suffer as our grandparents did. I oppose this logic: If Eu…

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2025

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Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under the InvestEU Regulation and simplifying reporting requirements (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are debating InvestEU at a time when Europe is called upon to look at its position in the world. As we follow progress towards a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, a dissonance emerges: We can find unity in the face of conflict, but we disperse it when it comes to building our industrial future and strategic autonomy. We are ap…

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Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Šefčovič, ladies and gentlemen, while we are debating here and while Europe continues to negotiate as if we were still in the world of free trade, the United States has already collected over $100 billion in tariffs, applying selective protectionism that rewards its interests and punishes our economy. Why are our companies, Commissioner, being hit by unilateral measures,…

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2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Parliament's control of the executive of the European Union through the so-called discharge is fundamental to the smooth functioning of democracy. An exercise that for us should once again be inspired by the values of the founding fathers: peace, solidarity, human rights, the prosperity of our citizens. Instead, questioning the legitimacy of NGOs receiving …

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2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Trump's trade policy reflects the mercantilist logic that a trade deficit is a threat. In 2023, the US imported around €157 billion worth of goods from the European Union. But we have to look at services and here we notice that it is the United States that has a surplus of 109 billion. This reminds us of how complex economic relations are and must …

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2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe was not born of fear, but of hope. From men and women who, in the rubble of war, had the courage to imagine a different future, a Union based on cooperation, democracy and peace. Today, this vision is under severe strain: We are witnessing an unjustified, useless, fragmented rearmament race, lacking even a common strategy that strengthens…

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2025

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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe must choose between protecting work and dignity or succumbing to precariousness and inequality. Deindustrialisation, the ecological transition, in particular in the sector automotive, and global trade tensions cannot be a pretext to reduce wages; We need a minimum wage where there is not yet, as in Italy, to guarantee decent incomes and s…

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2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission's work programme for 2025 raises a number of concerns, with so many shadows and very few lights. On the investment front, the programme focuses too much on defence, while there are no concrete measures for the protection of citizens, workers and support for industrial sectors in difficulty, such as the industrial sector.automotive…

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2025

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Cryptocurrencies - need for global standards (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, while in the United States, with Trump's inauguration, Bitcoin reaches historic values and even a single currency. meme Trump gains billions in capitalization, in Europe the debate on digital currencies remains stagnant, especially with regard to the digital euro. The digital euro issued by the European Central Bank would represent a public, sec…

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2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, demographic decline is a danger to the labour market and the sustainability of welfare. Among its most worrying implications is the sustainability of the pension system: if today there are 2.7 people of working age for every European pensioner, by 2100 this ratio will fall to 1.5, with a reduction of 54 million workers. In Italy, the situation is d…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, since there is no one on the right, the right to strike is a fundamental instrument of freedom and justice and is guaranteed by all our constitutions in Europe. Today, however, this right is under attack. In Italy, Salvini allows himself to prescribe the right to strike every time; It happened this year and it happened last year. This is unacceptable. Di Vittori…

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2024

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The outcome of the G20 Leaders' Summit (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, technology has radically transformed the global economy, redefining the way companies operate and interact in markets. However, it has also contributed to widening economic inequalities, concentrating unprecedented wealth and power in the hands of a few. This shift has highlighted the structural gaps in our tax systems, with regulatory asymmetries that are un…

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2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Turin, Melfi, Termoli, Pomigliano, but also Brussels, Zwickau: Car factories closed or in crisis are everywhere in Europe. In Italy alone, 100,000 jobs are at risk in the industrial sector.automotive Small and medium-sized enterprises are the most affected. If we do not want to make this European industry disappear, we must take immediate action, as during COVID…