What Paolo spoke about.

16 Sep

2026

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The impact of the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) on SMEs, its administrative burden and challenges for the European Single Market (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, on the packaging Yet another mistake is being made: new obligations are imposed and businesses are left with SMEs and craftsmen without clear indications on how to comply with them. The regulation has been in force for a month but we ask companies to invest today and then we will regulate tomorrow. It is an absurdity and, unfortunately, it is those who work, produce and…

14 Sep

2026

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it produces fake images and videos, imitates rumors, monitors strategic infrastructure, manages hospital data, monitors defence systems and launches missiles: This is what artificial intelligence does. So do we really want to take the risk of losing control over what, as the researcher who just resigned from Anthropic claimed, could kill all of us within a de…

8 Jul

2026

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Ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria, notably the Kawel village massacre

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in Kawel, Nigeria, dozens of Christians were massacred. Again. Once again, women and men, whole families, killed only because they were Christians. And Open Doors tells us that in the last two years 5,000 Christians have been killed. From the heart of Europe we have the duty not to be silent, but it is not enough, it is not enough to speak, it is n…

8 Jul

2026

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Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for too long the institutions have treated drug trafficking, drug dealing and drug use as an endemic evil, no longer extirpable, almost invincible, sometimes to be contained, if not, in the worst cases, even ignored or favoured. If, on the other hand, we want to be responsible as people engaged in politics, we must show that we have a heart open to conscience an…

16 Jun

2026

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The role of the EU in efforts for peace and stability throughout the Middle East after the announced deal between the US and Iran (debate)

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16 Jun

2026

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The role of the EU in efforts for peace and stability throughout the Middle East after the announced deal between the US and Iran (debate)

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I believe that first of all an effort must be made - as also recalled by the Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon, as recalled by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV - of humanity, on the part of all. From left to right and in the center, we must all recover what for us is humanity and the search, really, for peace. If we do this, then we can sit at a table in a united and cautious and pragmatic way, as the Italian …

16 Jun

2026

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The role of the EU in efforts for peace and stability throughout the Middle East after the announced deal between the US and Iran (debate)

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15 Jun

2026

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20 May

2026

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

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Thank you, Mr Hermida-Van Der Walle. Absolutely. We try to fight crime in all its forms and so we are willing to talk to find the best possible solutions to fight even the illegal use of these fireworks, so we are absolutely willing to talk about it and discuss it.…

20 May

2026

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, organised crime recruits children to sell, hand over weapons and steal. The mafias use them because they are cheap, they are more manipulable and they risk lower penalties. It happens all over Europe and it's happening in Italy as well. This is in addition to the phenomenon of baby gangs. This is the result of a social breakdown caused by the crisis of values…

19 May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are in the midst of an unprecedented energy crisis and that is why the time has come to abandon ideologies. green And be pragmatic. Today, the price of fertilizers is out of control and costs are always passed on to farmers. It is necessary to immediately abolish ETS and CBAM on fertilisers, but above all – and an opening that we appreciate has been made b…

29 Apr

2026

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Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate)

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29 Apr

2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

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28 Apr

2026

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I say this without any kind of controversy: What is a fundamental human right? Because it seems that we have forgotten what this concept means and so I believe that all together we should really remember what a fundamental right is. Because Pope Leo XIV said it well recently: It's not partisan or self-referential claims, it's not LGBT issues. gende…

25 Mar

2026

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, why? I have often wondered in recent weeks why this deafening silence of the European Union regarding the Epstein files: a scandal that combines rape, murder, cannibalism, pedophilia, Satanism. A global scandal involving dozens of elite figures, if you can call it that, Western. Epstein committed the worst atrocities with his accomplices and then b…

25 Mar

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative 'Ban on conversion practices in the European Union' (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, violence and coercion must always be condemned, and indeed they are already crimes in all our legal systems. The problem with the initiative we are discussing today, however, is another. If we read the text well, in fact, we understand that it is not limited to abuses, but goes beyond, far beyond. We talk about all the practices, all of them, that can…

11 Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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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 m…

11 Feb

2026

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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

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Violence in the Great Lakes Region, particularly in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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9 Feb

2026

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20 Jan

2026

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what are the first human rights actually denied around the world? Pope Leo XIV explains it very well. The first is the right to life, trampled on by the wars we see every day and in the suppression of nascent life. Religious freedom, often denied above all to Christians, is the most discriminated category in the world. Freedom of expression, sacrificed on the…

20 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)

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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 escap…

19 Jan

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is from this often deaf and disoriented Chamber that I would like to thank His Holiness Pope Leo 14th, because with a beautiful speech addressed to politics and diplomacy he has brought back the light, brought clarity and outlined the path that this European Union should also follow if it wants to save our Europe. He spoke of the danger to our freedom of expr…

17 Dec

2025

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Mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria, including from St Mary's Catholic school in Papiri

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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 th…