Speeches

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the rented womb is a form of violence and slavery: It transforms life into a commodity, motherhood into a contract, and the woman's body into an instrument. And on the left, even today, this seems to be of no interest at all. Behind it is always the usual injustice: The one who has money buys, the one who needs sells, and selfishness to the detriment of women and children triumphs. And let's be clear: There is no altruistic surrogate: there is a market of over 22 billion that fills the pockets of unscrupulous clinics and associations; There are children, torn from the womb. Italy, thanks to the Meloni government, had the courage to make the surrogate universal crime and now Minister Roccella has proposed to the UN an international coalition against the rented womb. And I hope that this appeal will also be taken up in a transversal way, because a child can never belong to the selfishness of those who want to fulfill their whim. And it is also so, ladies and gentlemen, that women defend themselves: with deeds, not with proclamations, beautiful words and then applause for aberrant practices, which want them enslaved and exploited.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is enough to treat Africa as a field of competition between powers! Others are already doing it and very quickly. Instead, we must begin to consider it as a strategic ally and not just a problem to be managed. Africa is not just a continent of needs: We need to work together to share growth, security and stability. It has 1.4 billion inhabitants, which by 2050 will become almost 2.5: average age 19 and an estimated GDP growth potential of between 4 and 5% per annum. The EU still remains the largest trading partner and investor, but our share is shrinking every year. In 2000, we accounted for 36% of African trade. Today we are below 25%. We have in fact delivered our market share to others, such as China. So, either we come back as protagonists or we will be forced to be irrelevant. We therefore follow the path of the Mattei plan and do not repeat the mistakes of the past. We need cooperation that generates value for both continents, true, based on investments, infrastructure, energy, training and not on aid dropped from above or, worse, managed by opaque multinationals. It is also necessary to prevent illegal immigration at its root and therefore not charity but strategy, not assistance but alliance and, at the same time, not invasion but cooperation. According to the Commission’s data, every €1 billion invested in productive cooperation – such as the one Italy is putting in place with the Mattei plan – can generate up to 60,000 new jobs and 1.8 points of GDP. These are numbers, not slogans, and they must become the basis of our method. Consistency is needed: We cannot talk about cooperation and then impose models or conditionalities that do not respect the sovereignty of our interlocutors. And let me say it clearly: Africa will not wait for Europe! Either we will be protagonists or we will find ourselves spectators of the changing world. Italy has noticed this urgency: Now is the time to follow us.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, agriculture is the economic and social heart of Europe. Men and women who every day, with sacrifice, guarantee food and future to our communities. And let's be clear: Without farmers, there is no Europe. We need to ensure less bureaucracy, fair prices, income protection, origin labelling, support for animal husbandry. And on this you begin to take the right direction. In future agreements, we also demand reciprocity. Those who sell in Europe, in fact, must respect the same standards that apply to us, because we cannot accept unfair competition. Our supply chain is also the safest, most sustainable and most transparent. All over Europe, farmers are the first custodians of the land and they are a garrison of sovereignty and freedom and for this they ask for respect. On the other hand, we ask the Commission: Is this the direction you want to take or is it that of the 20% cuts and the lack of listening? Will the primary and irreplaceable role of farmers be recognised? And to a part of the left we say: Enough of the ideological attacks on wine, meat and our good, just and sustainable Mediterranean diet.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are aware of the importance of the rule of law and respect for our fundamental values, but only when it is not used as a political club to target governments that are indigestible to the left and to single-mindedness. This happened first with Poland, then with Hungary, sometimes even with my Italy, because often those who do not align with the single thought are criticized. We, on the other hand, want a Europe of free peoples, which can be self-determined; We want a Europe in which peoples and governments are free to defend traditional and normal values without being blackmailed. Because we really want a Europe in which governments are elected by the people, unlike a left that often fills its mouth with democracy but does not respect it at all.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, immigrationism and globalist ideology are a disaster for Europe and for the whole world. The desire to eliminate nations, identities and differences represents a destructive dystopia: It is in theory and is unfortunately proving itself in practice. For too many years unscrupulous speculators, such as Soros, and human traffickers have enriched themselves regardless of who dies at sea, regardless of social clashes, disorder and loss of roots. This vision damages the peoples who suffer from immigration, but also the people who move and the countries of departure themselves. Italy, in fact, is doing so much despite the unworthy attempts to boycott the left and a certain part of the judiciary. And we must and will do even more with regard to returns, opposition to illegal immigration and bilateral agreements. Europe follows us, because, if we want to preserve who we are, we must guarantee everyone - as Pope Benedict XVI said - the right not to emigrate, the right to live in peace in their own land.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while the great powers are challenging each other for domination of the globe, often regardless of human lives, the red blood of innocent Christians is flowing unceasingly. Violence, abuse, murders against priests, women, children and the elderly have now become a sad normality, from Syria to Lebanon, from the West Bank to battered Africa, Christians have seen hatred and massacres against them grow day after day. It is no coincidence that Christians represent the most persecuted category in the world. For the children of Christ, martyrdom for the faith has become daily. The last example is the massacre at the church of St. Elijah of Damascus, perpetrated in that Syria that has not yet passed ten years of civil war, where those who marked the houses of Christians rule in order to be able to identify and kill them scientifically. What do we need to see before we act? It seems that Christians are not interested, and Europe is concerned with everyone but Christians. Do we have to endure this suffering for so long? Do we have to wait any longer before Europe acts? Let us act, or the Christians will disappear one at a time, also because of us.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while the great powers are challenging each other for domination of the globe, often regardless of human lives, the red blood of innocent Christians is flowing unceasingly. Violence, abuse, murders against priests, women, children and the elderly have now become a sad normality, from Syria to Lebanon, from the West Bank to battered Africa, Christians have seen hatred and massacres against them grow day after day. It is no coincidence that Christians represent the most persecuted category in the world. For the children of Christ, martyrdom for the faith has become daily. The last example is the massacre at the church of St. Elijah of Damascus, perpetrated in that Syria that has not yet passed ten years of civil war, where those who marked the houses of Christians rule in order to be able to identify and kill them scientifically. What do we need to see before we act? It seems that Christians are not interested, and Europe is concerned with everyone but Christians. Do we have to endure this suffering for so long? Do we have to wait any longer before Europe acts? Let us act, or the Christians will disappear one at a time, also because of us.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I fully agree that the Budapest demonstration taught us a great lesson: Someone's freedom is in danger, someone's ideas are discriminated against, some people are negatively labeled by those who want to impose their ideology. That's true. In Budapest, political representatives gathered from all over Europe asking to close the mouths of those who do not think like them. They participated freely – without being arrested by the villain Orbán – trying to meddle in internal affairs, in a demonstration in which blasphemous symbols, messages of hatred and discrimination against Christians and against public decency were displayed. Someone wants a law that limits freedom of speech and expression to those who simply want to testify to their faith and natural law, and promote the family founded on the union between a man and a woman. You're right, you're right: Europe needs to learn the lesson. As usual, like your communist ancestors you defended yesterday, those who want to eliminate freedom are on the left.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I fully agree that the Budapest demonstration taught us a great lesson: Someone's freedom is in danger, someone's ideas are discriminated against, some people are negatively labeled by those who want to impose their ideology. That's true. In Budapest, political representatives gathered from all over Europe asking to close the mouths of those who do not think like them. They participated freely – without being arrested by the villain Orbán – trying to meddle in internal affairs, in a demonstration in which blasphemous symbols, messages of hatred and discrimination against Christians and against public decency were displayed. Someone wants a law that limits freedom of speech and expression to those who simply want to testify to their faith and natural law, and promote the family founded on the union between a man and a woman. You're right, you're right: Europe needs to learn the lesson. As usual, like your communist ancestors you defended yesterday, those who want to eliminate freedom are on the left.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, once again in this Parliament we are trying to invade the sovereignty of the nation states. He attacks Hungary, which simply wants to protect its children and its future from ideology. gender, hypersexualisation, excesses and deceptions that risk undermining the free and innocent growth of children. But why don't we think about the real violations of freedom? For example, on June 4 in Brussels, two pro-life activists were arrested for peacefully exposing signs that read: Children are not born in the wrong body. No violence, no provocation, no obscene acts in a public place, unlike what sometimes happens in other demonstrations so dear to the left. These people simply asserted a trivial truth. What does the European Parliament do about this? Deafening silence. Anyone who demonstrates the reality of the facts is censored. Those who believe in those theories, which Pope Francis called the "most dangerous ideological colonizations of our time", are favored, financed and promoted. Behold, let us be indignant for this. Enough with the ideological attacks on a member country like Hungary, just because it does not align with the unique rainbow thinking of certain grey bureaucrats.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, scandalising, violating and raping the smallest and most innocent is one of the worst crimes that can only be imagined. We must be outraged and disgusted by child abuse, and we must firmly do justice at all costs. Predators exploit new technologies, hide in the shadows and leave indelible wounds in the lives of children. Stricter penalties, more effective instruments are fundamental, but it is not enough. We have to prevent this. We must create a society in which the words of those who claim that pedophilia is just another sexual orientation are no longer accepted. We must realize that the hypersexualization of children and young people, the free access to pornography, which increasingly becomes an addiction and a pathology, the propagation of the ideology of enjoyment at all costs and ideology gender They don't help us fight this scourge, they propagate it. Children must be left alone in their purity and innocence. And it is our primary task to be on the side of the children, at all costs.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, reciprocity: Europe and its farmers need reciprocity. We can no longer tolerate the import of food and genetically modified organisms banned in Europe, products that damage our biodiversity, risk endangering our health, disregarding the precautionary principle and, above all, bringing unfair competition. The same rules that apply to our entrepreneurs must also apply to those who want to import from us. Respect: Europe also needs respect for institutions and the will of the people. If the democratically elected Parliament votes on objections every month and the Commission continues to ignore these indications, we cannot be surprised if people lose trust in the European institutions. It is therefore time to change course, ensuring reciprocity and showing the respect due to this House.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we must aim for truly resilient water management, balancing environmental sustainability, food security and the competitiveness of the agricultural sector. In fact, extreme weather events, drought and inefficiency of networks, with losses in some areas exceeding 70%, are putting many sectors in crisis. That is why we must give courageous and timely answers, recognizing the positive role of agriculture in integrated water cycle management. Investments are needed in more efficient, invaded infrastructure, in storage basins with pumping systems and in new agricultural practices with low water impact such as TEAs. Water, moreover, in agriculture can not be considered only as a consumption but as a strategic resource that generates value. Finally, we cannot entrust the management of water exclusively to the market, given the negative experience of the wrong gas choices. We must manage water as a public good to ensure food sovereignty, water security and social justice for our communities, our farmers and our citizens.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, driven from their homes, marched for hundreds of kilometres and finally murdered on the side of the road; Men, women and children have been raped, beaten and massacred by their tormentors for ethnic and religious hatred. We remember today the tragic Armenian genocide of 110 years ago, when 1.5 million people were massacred by the Ottoman army. The Armenian genocide was, as Pope Francis said, the first great persecution of the twentieth century, carried out precisely in one of the cradles of Christianity to the detriment of the first Christian nation. It is right to remember this martyrdom, but it is not enough. Memory, in fact, is honored with action and today we must act to continue to be at the side of our Armenian brothers and to protect all Christians in general. Too many, in fact, continue to die, today as then, simply for their faith. May the memory of the Armenian martyrs give courage to a Europe that must defend with pride and a sense of responsibility those who today continue to be persecuted.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as is often the case in this Chamber, we are witnessing hypocritical and ideological statements; statements by those who would like to replace the legitimate decisions of a sovereign state, which unfortunately occurs very frequently. Hungarian law simply aims to protect children and the new generations according to values inspired by our Christian identity and history and, above all, common sense, fighting gender ideology and drifts woke. Today we proposed an amendment to condemn the abominable practice of the rented uterus: That, yes, was an opportunity to really protect human rights. Proposal rejected by the same who now would like to impose on Hungary, and other European nations, how to raise the new generations, talking about issues on which the European Union has no competence. This is no longer acceptable to us: Europe must once again defend its Christian principles and respect the sovereignty of our states and peoples.

Thanks to my colleague for the classic blue card. Thank you for your question and thank you for making me stress once again how we rely on reality data. Unfortunately, as far as your ideology is concerned, 100% of children in Europe were born to a father and a mother. 0% from two mothers or two fathers. Or there are people who buy children instead and in that case the right of the child is to know a father, his father, and his mother. This is about protecting children's rights, not telling them about LGBT and rainbow ideologies like yours.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, those who are truly parents are never discriminated against when travelling in Europe. Those who claim to be, instead, by sophisticating reality or buying children, encounter objective and just obstacles. With this new regulation, the EU is heavily ingesting Member States' family law under the pretext of freedom of movement. How many children do not see their parents recognised in another EU country? From the way you talk about it, it seems that every family should be afraid to move: But that's not the case. Adults, on the other hand, in civilized states like mine, do not see some of their desires recognized: Those who come or return to Italy and have been guilty of the crime of renting a uterus will find problems and obstacles. It's true and it's right. We do this to protect children from a market that reduces them to contract items. We will not accept any regulation that serves to circumvent our national laws and legitimize the barbaric practice of rented uterus.

Madam President, Commissioner Šuica, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about the just transition and reconstruction of Syria. But is it really right to talk about this with those who rule now, Syria? With those who in recent days have slaughtered and murdered thousands and thousands of women, children, Christian and Alawite civilians? Is it with them that we want to do all this? We said this after the fall of Assad, that there was no exultation for those who had taken power. We said so. And yet, there was someone here who had reacted festively to the advent of the regime of those who, here too, we thought were terrorists and who, from one moment to the next, proved to be moderate for this Parliament. Instead, we must defend from them our civilization, represented by Christians who are suffering all over the world and, at this moment, are suffering in Syria. And that's what we have to do. Let us act now, before it is too late, before they are exterminated or driven from their land.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, children, the most vulnerable, those who need protection most of all, must be given priority. This is in general, but also and above all for today's debate. We all agree, I believe and hope, on this point. So why would anyone want to sacrifice the rights of the little ones on the altar of ideology? Why do you want to fulfill at all costs the desires, more or less legitimate, of adults? Children have the right to have a father and a mother. Not because we decide it, ugly and bad, not because a state decides it, but because it is, without any possibility of denial. Having children is not a right. Having children is not a right that can be fulfilled at all costs. This is simply because people are not things. That's why I have a doubt. Evidently, today's debate is about deceiving. It is a deception: a deception on the part of those who want to legitimize the barbaric practice of the rented uterus, that is, the commodification of women, children and life. And if that's your goal, well, know that you'll find us ready for the barricades. We will be the embankment that will stop your furious ideological tide. We will never stop repeating it: Children can be born only to a father and a mother, only to a man and a woman. And it is absurd to always have to remember what is obvious. But if you force us, we will boldly reaffirm it every day. We will not step back an inch in the defense of the family, the woman and the children.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, someone obviously needs new glasses, because what is happening in Sweden, like what is happening in cities all over Europe, has made it clear that the ideologically-rich lenses of the left show a reality that does not exist. The reality is that gangs, violence, rape and drug dealing are now commonplace throughout Europe, and this is because of the left's respectability, goodwill and immigrationism. The time has come, then, to put on the glasses of truth. We must stop uncontrolled immigration, fight all drugs and support the police, a path, in fact, that the Meloni government in Italy has been trying to follow for some time. In fact, all Europeans demand the freedom to live in their own cities, the freedom to be safe.

We, as the Italian government, are on the one hand working on the birth rate, providing childcare services and tax breaks, and we are working to foster the fact that young people can have a home of their own; on the other hand, we do not believe that the solution to the demographic crisis is immigration, and so we are trying to fight illegal immigration, because this is not the solution, on the contrary, it is the solution to make more people die at sea. Therefore, we believe that, in order to reconcile demography and pro-demography policies with the fight against immigration, the Italian government is doing everything it can. On the contrary, it is pursuing the best policies at European level.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there are times when we must unite for the common good, putting aside all divisions, and issues on which it is essential to work together in a forward-looking way. The demographic crisis demands responsibility from us. The decline in births represents the greatest danger and we are already experiencing serious consequences from an economic, social and cultural point of view. We are dying, lost in the ideological policies that are bringing Europe to its knees, without realizing that to solve so many of our problems we should focus on this: Creating new Europeans. Reversing the course is possible. We must have courage, as the Italian Government is doing – let me say so. We have just created the Intergroup for Demography to give this signal, hoping to contribute significantly. For the sake of budgetary balance, for example, we must consider spending on birth growth as investment. On the other hand, what more just and beautiful investment, if not that in people? What better infrastructure, if not the hope in the future that children give, the hope that gives life?

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, why are you so afraid of freedom of expression? Why are you so afraid of opinions and confrontation? For years, digital platforms, under the pretext of fighting disinformation, have censored. For some time now, we have been denouncing the disproportionate power of multinational corporations that influence people's minds and opinions. The courageous response of the left? The silence. Or worse, culpable support for censors. In the name of political correctness, gender ideology and the Green Deal, you have passively aligned yourselves and now demand the censorship of those who guarantee freedom of expression, as well as rejoice over the unjust annulment of the Romanian elections. It is about being with freedom or with those who are ready to bend it for the propaganda of their ideology. We are not afraid of confrontation: We know who we are, but above all we know that truth always wins. And if, as St. Augustine says, the truth is like a lion defending itself, it is up to us to free it.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that when it comes to the protection of biodiversity, hunters should return to the centre of our discourse. This is also confirmed by estimates contained in the UN Biodiversity Report, according to which invasive alien species are one of the main global drivers in extinction processes. Ed è per questo che i cacciatori devono aiutarci, e possono aiutarci, nel contenimento, anche nel caso delle specie autoctone e della fauna selvatica fuori controllo, come nel caso dei cormorani, dei lupi, degli orsi e anche, a volte, degli stambecchi e dei cinghiali, che stanno facendo dei danni enormi all'ambiente, agli animali e agli uomini. And let's not forget that even the small migratory population does damage, as in the case of starlings, pigeons and finches. This is why hunters, so exploited and demonized by environmental and animal rights associations, must instead return to the center of the European discourse for the defense of the environment, because they are not our enemies but our allies.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, farmers deserve respect, they must be valued, protected and supported; They represent the basis of society and, I believe, of life in general. To ensure psychological well-being, therefore, we must stop criminalising them, starting with those who work in the livestock sector; we must combat unfair competition, starting with what the Mercosur agreement would create, if we do not establish a fair principle of reciprocity; we must cut red tape, enhance quality products and always guarantee origin. Finally – perhaps most importantly – we must protect their income because, without economic tranquillity and without valuing their work and sacrifices, psychological well-being is endangered. Our farmers are asking for one simple thing: Let them work in peace and be paid justly.