What Benedetta spoke about.

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Nov

2025

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Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, no sane entrepreneur should hire a woman of childbearing age; Feminists are modern witches. I am sure that a woman is only a woman if she has given birth: These are all current phrases of our politicians. And so hatred grows, anti-feminism normalizes and conquered rights are questioned every day. Today we define the European strategy for gender equality and w…

21

Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

There is one point that you are missing: The point is that we have always condemned Hamas, that we are demanding that Hamas – rightly – be disarmed and leave the Gaza Strip, that we absolutely must enforce Hamas’ responsibilities. The problem is that no one is talking about enforcing the responsibilities of a genocidal government that is continuing to occupy, that is perpetrating ethnic cleansing,…

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Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 'They destroyed what we had inside. They demolished my house, all my memories. They took away everything that helped me live. How can I be the same as before?" Ghazal, 14 years old. Imagine that you are a Palestinian child and everything you knew has been destroyed. Then they tell you that peace has come, that there is a plan. But the world around us remains …

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Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today, 7 October, is the anniversary of a terrible and bloody attack, which I condemn without hesitation. So why don't you condemn the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th of October? Why, after two years of Palestinian genocide and ethnic cleansing, are we still doing nothing to stop Israel? Because you refused to talk about the Flotilla if you do not care about the rights …

6

Oct

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, me and another 400 people – including four Members of this Parliament – were kidnapped by Israel in international waters. This is a grave violation of international and maritime law. We were forcibly taken to Ashdod, illegally detained, checked and denied basic rights. Participants were brought to a high‑security prison, deprived of water, food, sleep and medication, in some cases…

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Jul

2025

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EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as we spend billions on weapons, we are losing to climate collapse: temperatures up to 50 degrees, droughts, floods, fires. Europe continues to count the dead: only in Milan, 500, especially the elderly and disadvantaged. Children at home with kindergartens closed; The laborers, the riders and the workers collapse under the sun. In Italy, in 2024, 50 000 hect…

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Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2024 alone, seven Member States threw more than seven billion euros into unused clean energy. There are 1,700 gigawatts of renewable energy blocked waiting to connect to the grid in 16 countries. And these are just the data of the countries we have. These are numbers that speak for themselves: Without robust, high-performance and efficient networks, the ecolo…

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Jun

2025

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Madam President, I would like to react to the unproved, serious allegation regarding a youth organisation that is fighting for social rights and inclusion. I think that should not be possible in this House, especially when allegations are so serious and completely unproved. It is unacceptable that we accept the silencing of the voice of young people just because of their religion, just because the…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Gaza it is easier to die than to survive; Sometimes it's better to die, a refugee from Gaza told me. We are tired of plenary debates as people die: Empty words if we do nothing. What more needs to happen to sanction Israel? To break the trade deal? A total arms embargo? I was in Rafah, in front of a border closed for months, separating medicine, water and …

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, I think we should really take some repercussions for our colleague, because there's no justification for the killing of children, and that's what our colleague has just said. I want that – according to our internal rulings – our colleague is sanctioned for justifying the killing of children. There's no justification for the killing of children. And this cannot be allowed in this C…

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May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Second World War did not come because of the madness of a couple of dictators: It was also the short-sighted calculation of those who, in order to stop the advance of social demands, preferred to give way to the fascists. Liberals and popular thought they could use them as a barrier and use their violence for their own momentary profit. Capital has chosen…

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Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, without a clear strategy, energy-intensive industries in Europe risk becoming a thing of the past, squeezed between unsustainable energy costs and a transition that is still too slow, not the other way around. We cannot afford to be left behind, we need significant investments that must be linked to a just transition, which protects our people, improves the q…

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Apr

2025

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Dramatic situation in Gaza and the need for an immediate return to the full implementation of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement (debate)

I want to call for Rule 10(4) of the Rules of Procedure. This is inappropriate behaviour. Offending another member on no stance, just for the intervention we have done is completely unacceptable and we would like the presidency to do something about it.…

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Apr

2025

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Dramatic situation in Gaza and the need for an immediate return to the full implementation of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement (debate)

You talked a lot about all the faults of Hamas, you didn't say a word about the faults of Israel. So for her, the fact that Israel is bombing hospitals, putting them under siege and not allowing health protection; the fact that it has killed tens of thousands of children; the fact that it does not allow the entry of humanitarian aid; the fact that it resumed the siege and genocide of Gaza, after f…

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Mar

2025

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European Semester (joint debate)

Mr President, rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, the European Semester is a crucial time to find ambitious answers to the current social crisis. Amid rampant poverty, wages that do not keep up with inflation, loss of purchasing power and an unprecedented housing crisis, we must have the courage to come up with common answers. Only there are two weights and two measures: Everything from the Stabilit…

11

Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Thank you for your question. Have I ever said that? Have I ever said that we shouldn't have a common defence? Have I ever said that Europe should not try to build a common defence and a defence that is democratic? I have not said that. I've just said that we spend on weapons already, but we do not co-ordinate weapons. We do not have energy security, we do not have energy independence. If we got cu…

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Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 'ReArm EU': When did we disarm? We spend more on weapons than Russia and China; Yet no one feels safe. And instead of coordinating, we now want to throw more resources into a dysfunctional system, tying ourselves to a war economy with subsidies for the already high profits of the military industry. Trump and Putin laugh at our disorganization and impose their ru…

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Feb

2025

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Protecting the system of international justice and its institutions, in particular the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are witnessing an attack on international law and democracy. The new "black axis", composed of Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and Meloni, is dismantling the rule of law. The attack on the International Criminal Court is a first step in a methodical plan to legitimize violence, abuse of power and genocide in Palestine. Because the rules have always been tight for t…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Mr Buxadé, you say that the DSA is undermining the freedom of our people, it is practicing censorship, when what it asks is that, instead, if there are censorships that need to be made, they need to be transparent. They are not censures, but they are fact checking, i.e. verification of the veracity of the facts. Instead, these things happen anyway, because it is already the platforms that decide w…

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

I remind my colleague that I am a Green and not a Social Democrat. Yes, we could create a green job and lose ten standards, if we do what you say, that is not invest in the transition and still think that the industry, the industry of the past can be the future, when all the rest of the world is going in another direction. We want to create jobs, we want to combine the transition with a real socia…

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

1896: Arrhenius wrote about the impact of CO2 with respect to the climate. 1970s: Exxon scientists told us about the devastating impacts of burning fossils, and then hid everything. In 1992 the Rio conference, in 1997 Kyoto. In 2015, in Paris, we pledged to stay within 1.5 oC. The future is today. In 2024, we exceeded the fateful threshold of 1.5 oC. The consequences for our territories are very c…

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

Mr Berlato, I would like to ask you two questions. One is if in your scientific studies you have ever found a climate change that has occurred in such a short time, of so many degrees, since you have reported scientific data on the changes that have always occurred, because, unfortunately, it seems to me that there is not. The second question is more political: Do you confirm to me that this is yo…

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

You said that we need to address global emissions, but then your party would oppose anything that is tackling that, like the due diligence law or the deforestation law, that is actually tackling what we do outside of Europe. Your party is not addressing anything that is tackling overconsumption, and we know that overconsumption is produced in third countries. Your party is a very, very strong part…

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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, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, one in ten workers in Europe is at risk of poverty, with a totally inadequate level of wages. An entire generation is in precariousness and austerity and its cuts loom over our lives. In the face of all this, the right, instead of thinking about improving working conditions, says that the problem is with those who strike for their rights, b…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let us 'deport them all': This is how the far-right youth group of the AFD praises hatred on TikTok. ‘COVID does not exist’: Millions of shares for videos denying the pandemic, while thousands died. These are just a few examples but every day we are bombarded with images and videos presented as absolute truths, whose popularity and adequacy are decided by s…