Speeches

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, protecting children from violence, abuse and pedophilia must be a top priority for us. We must punish without hesitation the monsters who abuse their purity and innocence, those who spread child pornography and defile our society. We must preserve the population and protect people from this disgusting material that, unfortunately, can circulate more and more easily via the web. At the same time, however, we must avoid that some powerful, in bad faith, use all this as a hypocritical excuse to blame most of the good people and to establish a society of control. But dismantling these organizations and those individuals who carry out these infamous crimes remains absolutely the primary objective. Therefore, we start by neutralizing those organizations of which we have evidence and clues. We also investigate at European level what results in the Epstein files, to find out if, even here, a criminal organization of that type had put its rotten and diabolical roots. We must do this now for the sake of truth and justice.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, artificial intelligence without bioethical stakes is creating a new front of abuse: fake images, fake videos but real faces, with innocent people and increasingly minors at the center. With a few clicks you can generate sexual material or even child pornography, but the violence is real and the consequences are even more so. Material that circulates and escapes control, feeds the nets of lurers and culturally normalizes abuse and exploitation. Technology, in particular artificial intelligence, can be a positive tool only when it is guided by man and institutions, but not only, it is not enough, only when it is inspired by shared values and limits also on the ethical, not only legal, level. So, let's take a step back: What is the cultural model that we want to defend and pass on? If the answer is a society without moral limits, as someone in here would like, then AI becomes uncontrollable. Instead, the only way is to inspire ourselves and inspire our laws with the deepest and most deeply rooted Christian culture.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 300 children have been kidnapped in Nigeria and no, this is not an isolated case. We know that every day massacres, murders and kidnappings affect Christians in Nigeria and around the world. And, in particular, Boko Haram in Nigeria uses the abduction tool to enslave women, children and men and to earn money. And the European Union does almost nothing from this point of view, we are almost helpless in the face of these massacres and persecutions. That's why we have to do something and not leave them alone. I believe that, in Nigeria and throughout the world, Europe should condition its trade cooperation agreements, its investments, not on the affirmation of progressive ideology, but should affirm them, instead, and should condition them on the defense of Christian minorities. This is what we must do and, in addition to this, we must finally appoint a delegate against Christianophobia and for freedom of worship. We must do this so as not to leave our Christian brothers and sisters alone once again.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, here we are, once again, when it comes to the rule of law, use this argument to attack Hungary and all those who do not align themselves with your unique thinking. You use it as a political club to try to silence all those who do not think like you, using the excuse of public funds. And this is also what the Commission does, denying funds, for example, to the Federation of European Catholic Family Associations or asking for money back from the World Youth Alliance, not because it has used the money in a negative way, but simply because it defends man and woman, because it defends the dignity of the conceived and fights to defend life always, what should be the true values, but that you no longer accept. Behold, yours is discrimination, you are intolerant and we have discovered you. That is why we really call for transparency and fairness, because you cannot talk about the rule of law, if you trample on the dignity of nations, subsidiarity and the European tradition. If we want credibility, we need equal rules for everyone, because we stand for freedom and pluralism, but you obviously do not.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, human rights begin in the womb: "My voice, my choice" is in fact a deception, yet another deception. You do not want to guarantee the health and safety of people, because, obfuscated by ideology, you forget the most important right: To live, to be born. You want to subvert the subsidiarity principle of the European Union to affirm a right to abortion that does not exist. But there are duties, those yes, ours, to defend the weakest, the defenseless, the discarded. We live in a strange time when we defend the eggs and nests of toads, pigeons, seagulls, sparrows, animals more protected than innocent little human beings. I therefore appeal to the conscience of each of us, because in the depths of our hearts we know that to help every woman we must help her to have the right to complete her pregnancy, we must give every child the opportunity to see the light and to experience the joys and pains, the victories and defeats that each of us has the opportunity to live. Living: Yes, this is the first and non-negotiable right.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, our cities cannot be held hostage by crime, gangs and drug dealing. There are those who think they can destroy entire communities without consequences and, as in France, even hit and kill those who have the courage to oppose. It is time to say enough – firmness and an iron fist against those who sow fear and degradation to return parks, streets and neighbourhoods to families, children and the elderly. To protect young people, lives and the future, we must act without hesitation: means giving more tools and more powers to law enforcement, strengthening controls, hitting the trafficking networks at the root and ensuring certainty of punishment; It means controlling borders and preventing criminals from finding easy ground, working decisively and with clear rules. Freedom and safe public spaces, in fact, are a priority and for this reason we cannot let the violent rule. We, in fact, choose the state, the law and security. We want safe cities and we want them free from death dealers. And to young people we want to remind them every day: Drugs only bring pain, death and destruction.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we discover with immense surprise - so to speak - that Europe has handed over its industrial sovereignty to China. We make an astonished face, as if it were not the result of years spent following the follies of Greta Thunberg, years in which the EU imposed how to produce, which cars to buy, how to live, making decisions that tied us hands and feet to someone else. Meanwhile, in China they invested and secured control of the strategic supply chains, which we gave them. We are dependent on their raw materials because our citizens have been forced to use technologies without ensuring, before, that we have control and sustainability at the supply chain level. A strategic masterpiece, in short! Demand the transition, but without the necessary resources and becoming dependent because of an ideological Commission and convinced that regulations are enough to change the world. And today we have to kneel down to get what we need. If Europe really wants to be autonomous, it must stop being a teacher and start thinking in a forward-looking way. The world is not waiting for our debates: We'll change our ways or we'll end up in a dead end!